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Subject: [Leica] Leitz Elmar 90 mm f/4
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:43:47 -0400

I heard or read Elliot Erwitt used his 90 a lot. I think it was a
collapsible Summicron 90.  Examples of folks using those are rare. I bought
one for my wife 8 years ago.
Every time I flip though his books which is once I week at the bookstore I
think: I'm not even close to this good. Not all the top photogs I get that
immediate reaction from.
The reason being of course I never got to shoot with a collapsible Summicron
90!

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:04:33 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitz Elmar 90 mm f/4
> 
> I've used the Elmar C 90 for years.  Small, light, and very sharp.  It's 
> also
> relatively cheap for a post 1960s Leica lens.

A while ago I was paging
> through a book of 1950s era photos by Leica photographers.  About a quarter
> were made with 90 mm lenses, while very few were made with anything wider 
> than
> a 50.  That inspired me to dig out my 90 for a day of shooting.

Sent from my
> Verizon Wireless Phone

----- Reply message -----
From: "Daniel Ridings"
> <dlridings at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 4:31 pm
Subject: [Leica] Leitz
> Elmar 90 mm f/4
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>

I've got three
> of them. One M-mount, one screw mount that looks like
yours, and one black one
> from the 40's that I had to clean up with
Sears Eye-glass cleaning fluid. Took
> the mushrooms right off the glass
and just might be the best of the
> three.


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Daniel Ridings
> <dlridings at gmail.com> wrote:
> And keep loving ...
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlridings/4687036845/in/pool-504982 at N20/
>
>
> On
> Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
> A lens you just got'a love ...
>>
>>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlridings/4920186450/in/photostream
>>
>>
>> On
> Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
>>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Portfolio/071009_lhsa_rc_047b.jpg
>
> >> .html or
>>> http://tinyurl.com/7w9kker
>>>
>>> I shot this the above the
> day I bought it in Rochester from Jimmy of Koh's
>>> cameras at the LHSA swap
> meet on Sunday.  Oct 14, 2007.
>>> For my IIIF.
>>>
>>> I did the shot with a
> 50 instead of 90 finder. As soon as I got back to NY I
>>> put on the 90
> finder which I'd got ahead of time as there was no doubt in my
>>> mind I'd be
> getting a 90 for my LTM system in a very short wile.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is a pic
> of me holding the lens for a fella from Spain's blog its half
>>> way down the
> page
>>> http://elrectanguloenlamano.blogspot.com/2008_06_15_archive.html
>>>
> " Very beautiful screwmount Leitz Elmar 90 mm f/4, property of Mr Mark
>>>
> William Rabiner, LHSA member. Crowne Plaza Hotel lobby. Rochester (New
>>>
> York). October 14th 2007. Photo: Jos? Manuel Serrano Esparza.
>>> "
>>>
>>>
> The pic itself of the lens in my hand.
>>>
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QomDizboK-A/SFx0L0ALqTI/AAAAAAAAAXI/Bfgdeys30NY/s1
>
> >> 600-h/15.jpg or
>>> http://tinyurl.com/35f55x5
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - - from
> my iRabs.
>>> Mark Rabiner
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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