Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe they needed to season themselves. They're perfectly good now. A lot of really good photos have been made with the 90 TE. mine is great. Even on digital. The only issue is that it exhibits a bit more focus shift than I want. And with that very short focus throw, it's hard to compensate for. Phil Forrest On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:57:10 -0500 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > About the only thing on the LUG a decade ago everybody could agree on > was their Tele Elmarit which they'd sold off usually years before was > a blooper in their Leica careers. Mine I could not make a good print > from. It had no internal contrast. You could not get tones to > separate. I was in deep Leica denial for a few years till I finally > got a current Elmarit. Then zip I was back in business with Leica > gain on my white backdrop. > > I could not figure out how I could spend $450 (used) on a lens and > have it not render an image you could do anything with. And made by > Leica. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > > > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:34:05 -0600 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder error on M9 > > > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Mark Rabiner > > <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > >> The Tele-Elmarit was a disaster on wheels from the get go > >> > > > > Mine was not a disaster, I am really happy with it for film. > > > > It is pocketable, discreet, light, and well balanced on an M camera. > > > > It just has some minor problems on digital mostly wide open, in > > close. If you use it as a short tele, it works pretty good. > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Sonny > > http://sonc.com/look/ > > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > > > USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information