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Subject: [Leica] 75-90mm lenses - Opinions
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue May 9 16:13:34 2006

I have an 85/1.4 Zeiss SLR lens, and it is a monster. I may have to actually
handle one of the 75/1.4 Luxes to really get a feel for its size.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Didier
Ludwig
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:46 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] 75-90mm lenses - Opinions


Jeffery

90 is "too long" for my personal RF usage. I have the 75/1.4 - it's, IMHO,
the Leica lens with the smoothest bokeh of all. Most will say, no, it's the
35/2 Summicron 4th gen. - but I do not share this opinion. If the 35 is the
king, then the 75 is the queen. And much more powerfull like in the chess
game...

May be you had noted I had the 75 'Lux for sale past winter, to finance a
DSLR. I had found a buyer on the list, but then, after looking at some of my
shots made with that lens, I did not have the heart to sell it. This might
illustrate what the lens means to me... 

The size of the 75/1.4 is too large for many - I did not have any problems.
Together with a rapidgrip on the M6 it balances very well.

Didier (still waiting for a DSLR)




>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......
>
>Jeffery Smith



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