Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> So I guess the new statements on the gear chat lists is that a lens has to > have movable elements to be viable. > So we people have have been getting blazing results with our ?99As or > whatever lens have an excuse to put the lot of them on the eBay block. > O boy! All new stuff! I'm not saying the 90 AA is not viable, it's just that the newer lenses are better, particularly close up. > Erwin in his book the "Leica Lens Compendium" which sits at my left right > now calls it one of ?best corrected lenses in the M line. It was written in > 2001. So the 75 Summicron was not out yet and one or two others. > Besides its ASPH and APO features it employs "a new kind of mechanism to > engage the roller cam of the rangefinder". For a wider throat diameter. > Less > Vignetting. I got a funny feeling it works better than perfectly on an M9. > He states the lens represents the latest insights in: > > 1. mechanical sophistication. As well as > 2. asperical technology, and > 3. glass selection for APO correction. Yes, so it was state of the art in 2001 but it isn't any more. That's all I'm saying. > I think these people need very little reason cast aside one piece of choice > gear to give them fodder to bid for another. For reasons often ranging in > the bizarre.. I'm not loosing any sleep on what whoever is saying this week > about the supremely excellent gear coming out of the modern Leica factory > that I've used successfully as have thousands of others and have amazing > specs. I have the best reason in the world to test lenses. People send me a pile of lenses and then pay me money to test them. I test and use them for a month or so and then send them back. No buying here for over 3 years and I haven't sold anything Leica of mine since last century. Marty