Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, I agree about the 135/3.5 - quite a heavy brute, wonderful pictures too, but it does seem to me to be rather prone to flaring when shooting against the light. (BTW, the 85/1.9 is also a great lens, it's even heavier - but also tends to flare a little) Cheers Douglas Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > I've never used the Canon 135/4 LTM lens but I own and regularly use a > Canon 135/3.5 LTM lens with an adapter on my M3. I think that they are > essentially the same lens. It takes wonderful pictures but, as several > have said, it is very heavy. The Canon Lens Guide drawings show it to > a 4 element long focus lens, the center group being a solid glass > cylinder. No wonder it weighs a lot. It focuses adequately with the M3 > but probably should be stopped down with rangefinders of lesser > magnification. > > Larry Z > >> From: James Laird <digiratidoc at gmail.com> >> Subject: [Leica] Canon 135/4 LTM >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Message-ID: >> <daaeb97e0907161444r689fa9c7pc8afab17d843bda3 at mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Anyone familiar with the Canon 135/4 LTM? I've seen some at very good >> prices. Opinions? >> >> Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >