Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i find myself with a glut of lenses from 65-90; a 65 elmarit (V), 75 summilux (M), 80 summilux (R), 85 summarex (LTM), 90 summicron (LTM) v. II, 90 summicron (M) v. III, 90 summicron (R) and 90 summicron AA (M). the LTMs i sought out because i thought they would be neat envelope-pushers (i think the 90 in short-mount is the fastest viso lens they ever made), the 75 and 80 are culty lenses which need no apology, and most of the 90's just found there way into my closet, although the AA is an amazing lens. -rei On May08 19:47, Jeffery Smith wrote: > I have every conceivable possible lens between 15mm and 50mm (with a lot of > weight skewed toward the 50mm end). However, I have only two lenses past > 50...a 90/2.8 Hexanon (which is "very good") and a 75/2.5 Heliar (which is > "very good"). I would like to have something excellent longer than 50. It's > a length I don't use enough. Since Zeiss Ikon apparently stopped dead in > their tracks at 50, I pretty much have the following choices in Leica > glass: > > 75/1.4 > 90/4 > 90/2.8 > 90/2 > > Of course, the faster the glass, the more expensive it is. I doubt that I > will be shooting smoky, dimly-lit pubs with this. So speed is not that much > of an object. Does one of these stand out among the others? If the fast > glass is the glass with hair-raising quality, I will consider [choke!] the > cost as secondary. > > BTW, 90mm seems to be the length LEAST used by LUGers, at least in PAW > postings. It isn't THAT long...... -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey