[Leica] 90mm's

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

Hi Frank,

I've heard something about this haze. It had something to do with some
Canadian balsam or whatever, right?

I am kind of afraid of buying a lens without being able to inspect it,
because of this. I think I can return it if I'm not satisfied, but ...

>From what I understand, the fat ones are not liable to these problems.

Daniel

On 6/6/06, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> mine is very sharp but became flare prone, it seems to be sensitive
> to the smallest amount of haze on one of the inner surfaces.
> Frank
>
> On 6 Jun, 2006, at 18:45, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> > Sorry, no fat one.
> >
> > But I am seriously considering a skinny one.
> >
> > I used a Tele-Elmarit (Canadian) sporadically in the 70'ies (it wasn't
> > mine). I remember it being very sharp, even wide-open.
> >
> > Then I hear others saying it is so-so. Is this one of the lenses with
> > a lot of sample variation?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > On 6/5/06, Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >> Jeff Smith got the 90mm discussion rolling a few weeks ago. I have
> >> a 90/f2, 90/2.8 and now have a 90/2.8 "Fat" Tele. I know SonC had
> >> good results with this lens so I hope to try it out this week. Any
> >> other "Fat" users?
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
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