Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You might be pleasantly surprised by the 90/2.8 Elmarit R stopped down to f/4. A couple of casual available light portraits with that lens sold me on the R system. Roy On 4 Feb 00, at 14:30, Gib Robinson wrote: > I'd like some help choosing a portrait lens for an R8. I don't own any > lenses above 50mm that are faster than f/4 and I'd like one. As far as I > know, my choices are 80 Summilux, 90 Summicron, 100 f/2.8 APO Macro. I've > been leaning toward the 80mm 1.4 because it seems like a very workable focal > length with ideal speed. The APO macro seems a tad long and a tweak slow in > spite of it's legendary qualities as a macro lens. What's been the > experience of this group? > > --Gib > >