Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/24/99 2:53:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << This is what makes for horse races, or photos of horse races....If I could only own one Leica lens, without question it would be the 35 Summilux ASPH...I find the 35 to be the ideal focal length...I think the ideal two-lens outfit would be the 35 S ASPH and the 75 Summilux.... >> Now, see, I agree with you here completely. If I have to go with only *one* lens it would also be a 35. 75 is a nice counterpart to the 35, being 2x the 35. I wish Leica made a 75 Summicron or Elmarit, like about the size of the old 90 Tele-Elmarit. I do own and love the 75 Summilux. Incredible performance, especially considering it's almost a 20 year old design. Came out the same year as the non-ASPH 90 Summicron but blows it away at the wider f-stops. I don't do much "available darkness"-type photography, so for me the 75 is *instead* of a 50 f1 or 1.4 *and* a 90 f2. It's such a schnozz on the M6, though, that I don't regularly carry it. DT