Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, At 09:57 AM 7/9/01 -0500, you wrote: >Could those of you who've had experience with both the M 75 >Summilux and the R 80 Summilux please comment re: > Sharpness > Bokah > Focus > quickness, etc. > >I don't believe that I'll ever find enough $ for both, and I feel >like i'm on a teeter totter when ever discussion of either comes >up. I want which ever one ya'll are talking about at the time. I have owned the M 75 and sold it as I didn't care for the feel of it on the M. It was very stiff and hard to focus. However, I have had the 80/1.4-R and love it. Before I sold my R stuff I had both the 80/1.4 and the 35/1.4. I now am again with the R8 and a 35/1.4. I will again get the 80 as it was, for me, very easy to use. I understand that it focuses from infinity to nearest focus with one half a revolution. (I just posted a question about this on the LEG asking a comparison on focus quickness with the 100/2.8 from 8/1o's of a meter to infinity. Bill in Denver told me that it was two complete revolutions - Pascal informed me that the 80 was just a half a revolution). It is sharp lens with very smooth out of focus areas. I found it quite fast to use in low light with the R8 and obtained photos I would not have been able to focus fast enough with the 75 on the M. It is a lot easier to focus with the R8 and ground class screen than it is with the M. Just my 2 cents. I am going to buy another pretty soon. Dick Hemingway Plano, TX (born barely in Detroit of Canadian parents in 1927 - they tore down the hospital after that!! Started messing with photography and developing film etc when I was about 8 or 9 and have been at ever since. First camera was a Retina 1, started shooting Kodachrome without a meter of range finder. Used Nikon from about 1960 to early 80's and Leica ever since. Have lived in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Waco, Richardson [when there were 1600 people there and nothing on the west side of central - worked for a title company going to law school and put on the first subdivision west of central in Richardson] Plano, and Lubbock, Texas, also Boulder, Co., and Norman, Ok. Been back in Plano for the last 2 1/2 years)