Tele lenses

[Annibale G.]

Here I am again, I'm thinking about to buy a tele lenses, maybe the 90mm or the 75mm one, either f/2. What do you think about them? what do you suggest?
Annibale

[stunsworth]

I have a 75mm Summicron and it's outstanding. It's part of the 24/35/75 set that I use - this is with an M8 by the way.

[Annibale G.]

well, I use a M7

[spydrxx]

Both excellent lenses. It really depends on what you are photographing and how close in you want to get. I personally like 90mm on a film camera...75 is too close to a 50 for me.

[luigi bertolotti]

Vai per il 90, Annibale... con le Leica a pellicola è un obiettivo che si usa un sacco... con la M8 è davvero un'altra faccenda... e mi sono preso un Summarit 75...

[lct]

Originally Posted by Annibale G.

Here I am again, I'm thinking about to buy a tele lenses, maybe the 90mm or the 75mm one, either f/2. What do you think about them? what do you suggest?

Depends on the format and VF magnification.
With a film M and 0.72x or higher mag. VF, both 75/2 and 90/2 are OK.
With a film M and 0.58x VF, the 90/2 is difficult to focus at full aperture; same with the M8.

[Craftsman]

I just today got the first prints back from my new 90mm Elmarit-M and I couldn't believe how sharp they were. It's a lens that I think I'll be using a lot with my .85 MP. Maybe a lens you want to take a look at.

[peter_n]

What other lenses do you use on a regular basis? I have both the 75 and 90 ASPH lenses and love the 75. It goes very well with the 35mm as a pair. The 90 isn't so hot at the closer distances but is outstanding at medium & long distances. It is big, heavy and somehow awkward. The 75 is just excellent at everything. It is smaller than the 90 and has a sliding hood that actually locks! Below is a pic shot with the 75 on a 0.85x M7 that shows a close foreground and medium distance background. It is sharp but renders out of focus backgrounds well.

[leicanut2]

Tele-Elmar 135mm Super lens and you can get it for a reasonable price on ebay.

Cheers Jan

[Annibale G.]

Originally Posted by peter_n

What other lenses do you use on a regular basis? I have both the 75 and 90 ASPH lenses and love the 75. It goes very well with the 35mm as a pair. The 90 isn't so hot at the closer distances but is outstanding at medium & long distances. It is big, heavy and somehow awkward. The 75 is just excellent at everything. It is smaller than the 90 and has a sliding hood that actually locks! Below is a pic shot with the 75 on a 0.85x M7 that shows a close foreground and medium distance background. It is sharp but renders out of focus backgrounds well.

Sorry Peter, just a question , as I'm going to buy a plane scanner , the image you post is a print scanned image ?or you scanned the negative?
Annibale

[zapp]

Originally Posted by peter_n

What other lenses do you use on a regular basis? I have both the 75 and 90 ASPH lenses and love the 75. It goes very well with the 35mm as a pair. The 90 isn't so hot at the closer distances but is outstanding at medium & long distances. It is big, heavy and somehow awkward. The 75 is just excellent at everything. It is smaller than the 90 and has a sliding hood that actually locks! Below is a pic shot with the 75 on a 0.85x M7 that shows a close foreground and medium distance background. It is sharp but renders out of focus backgrounds well.

Well, the M version of the 90AA focusses up to 1m only while the 75 focusses up to 0.7m. The R version of the 90 also focusses to 0.7m making me happy :-)

[peter_n]

Originally Posted by Annibale G.

Sorry Peter, just a question , as I'm going to buy a plane scanner , the image you post is a print scanned image ?or you scanned the negative?

Annibale this is a negative scan. I have an inexpensive Minolta film scanner that is excellent but I am not very good at scanning. The pic was taken on Ilford XP2 and developed at a local drug store (pharmacy). Hope this helps.

[Skjöll]

Peter, does your Walgreens or whoever did the job process B/W? Or was it C41'd?

[peter_n]

It was C41'd. Interesting you should ask as they did a very poor job on the processing. Some of it was extremely grainy, fingerprints on the negatives and the negatives were lying open on their bench when I went to pick up the film. I've had excellent processing in the store previously but this experience is driving me to process my own. I'm spending a lot of time in Photoshop's healing tool with this stuff.

[Michael Hiles]

Originally Posted by peter_n

but this experience is driving me to process my own. I'm spending a lot of time in Photoshop's healing tool with this stuff.

Peter, Is there a straightforward way to do C41 at home? I do quite low volume but would like to do a quality job rather than either wait 2-3 days for the real photo store or give it to the 1hr who-the-hell-cares people. And I really like XP2.

Oh, and very nice shot.

Cheers,

Michael

[peter_n]

Thanks Michael. People do develop C-41 at home, there are a number of threads on both photo.net and the RFF. If you Google the following search strings:

site: photo.net C-41 at home
site:rangefinderforum.com C-41 at home

you'll find most of them. When you copy & paste the first one in, remove the space between the colon and the p. Those two characters together make an emoticon on this board.

[budrichard]

I own and use both the 75mm and 90mm ASPH's on my 0.85 M7 &M6. The 75 is better for portraits as the depth of field is not a shallow close in as the 90. Either is a great modern lens that will serve you well. I would suggest the 75mm if contemplating doing some clsoe up/portrait work and the 90mm if just doing longer distances. Ideal world, have both!-Dick