Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, good to see you on the LUG ! >>I think that my next lens purchase will be a 90 mm lens. >>There seem to be several incarnations of that one. >>Any advice on which ones are good and which aren't? I had a late model Tele-Elmarit-M 90/2.8 (version with 39mm filter thread= , built until 1989). It was a very good lens, particularly at infinity. At close range contrast wasn=B4t too good. Several months ago I sold it and bought an Elmarit-M 90/2.8 (current model with 46mm filter thread). This lens is a little bigger and unfortunately a lot heavier than the tiny Tele-Elmarit-M, but performs way better in the close range. My first 90 BTW was the Summicron-M 90/2 which I sold after half a year a= s it just didn=B4t perform as well as I had expected it to. You can find a lot of info on Leica lenses (including 90mm) on Erwin Puts= =B4 website (http://www.imx.nl/index.html). You may also want to think about getting the Summilux-M 75/1.4 which is a= stellar performer. Carsten http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Carsten_Bockermann/