Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/19
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Mark
As I understand it, it is the same lens design.
Gene
Mark Rabiner
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owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: Re: [Leica] was Leica DSLR, now L or R glass?
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03/19/2003 04:38 AM
Please respond to
leica-users
Doug Herr wrote:
>
> on 3/18/03 9:36 PM, Don Dory at dorysrus@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > Well, not to be cantankerous, but the 85 F1.4 is an amazingly good
lens. At
> > least for the one sample I ran four or five rolls of film through.
>
> It's up against some stiff competition - the other 50mm and longer R
lenses
> are clearly 'best-in-class' optics, the 80 f/1.4 is merely 'among the
best'.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
The huge air to glass surface on the 85 1.4's of all makes does not give
me confidence in the contrast and flare suppression I like to have in my
images.
An 85 1.4 would be great to have for an SLR but the screens are really
so bright now what do we need 1.4 for on an 85?
An 85 1.8 or 2 is half the size and weight and twice the results it
seems to me. A supremely usable lens I've done most my body of work with
it. (Nikon) If I was leaving the studio and going outside with the model
and it was getting kind of dark would I want to put on a 1.4? Gee I
don't know maybe not for fashion you kind of need more depth of field
anyway.
Hey!! is the 90 apo Asph R ported over from the M or is it a different
design?
Now THATs the short tele I'd like for my R body.
Why not the sharpest lens in the history of the known universe?
OK!
Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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