Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica made 2 tele-elmar lenses. The fat and the skinny. I have the skinny one and it is an excellent lens, though a touch prone to flare. I have never seen a fat one, let alone used one, so I can't comment on its performance. I have the matched teleconvertor too, which makes a tiny 135mm f4 lens. This is not too good though... FD On 7 Nov, 2010, at 21:57, Mark Rabiner wrote: > About the only thing on the LUG a decade ago everybody could agree on was > their Tele Elmarit which they'd sold off usually years before was a blooper > in their Leica careers. Mine I could not make a good print from. It had no > internal contrast. You could not get tones to separate. I was in deep Leica > denial for a few years till I finally got a current Elmarit. Then zip I was > back in business with Leica gain on my white backdrop. > > I could not figure out how I could spend $450 (used) on a lens and have it > not render an image you could do anything with. And made by Leica. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb