Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R portraits
From: "Roy Zartarian" <royzart@connix.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 21:03:30 -0500

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
> 
>