Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Dear 'M' fans: > >Cutting my teeth (and financing my college in the sixties) on a pair of M3 bodies w/35, 50, 90, 200 (Viso II) lenses, I went a little crazy in the seventies whilst living in Japan and traded the whole lot for a--don't hate me too much--Miranda outfit. (You should have seen their eyes behind the counter on the Ginza when I walked in their door to trade lots of Leica for Miranda in 1972!) > >I returned to sanity this year and bought a new M6 with 35mm/2.0 SUMMICRON ASPH lens. I have since picked up a clean 135mm/4.0 TELE-ELMAR and a new 21mm/2.8 ELMARIT during a fire sale by the local Leica dealer. My next lens target is a new 75mm/1.4 SUMMILUX. Yes, I understand the love affair with the 90mm and loved my 90mm/2.8 Elmarit in the sixties and early seventies. But I think the 75mm holds some interesting possibilities for my people style of photography. Plus, I don't want to get both a 50mm and a 90mm and end up with FIVE lenses when I think FOUR lenses will do. Also, fully half my pictures currently are captured with the 35mm lens. > >Tell me, anyone had experience with the 75mm/1.4 lens? Let me hear your story. Thanks! > >jb <bold>________________________________________________________________ Jack Bowdle Sr. District Sales Manager <italic>Red Brick Systems, Inc</italic>. voice: 253-941-5100 PO Box 54129 fax: 253-941-7442 Redondo, WA 98054-0129 email: jbowdle@redbrick.com </bold><underline><color><param>0000,0000,fefe</param>http://www.redbrick.com </color></underline><bold>pager: 800-320-5181 </bold>________________________________________________________________