Overgaard Posted August 9, 2010 Share #1 Posted August 9, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just posted a new article on the Leica 90mm lenses and their history, names and all, and with many examples from the Leica M9 with the 90mm Summarit-M f/2.5 which I've used lately for - amonst other things - rock'n'roll photography! Have a look, and please, if you know details or have information that should be in, feel free to let me know. leica.overgaard.dk - Thorsten Overgaard's Leica Pages - Leica 90mm Summarit-M f/2.5 tele lens and other Leitz and Leica 90mm lenses Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 9, 2010 Posted August 9, 2010 Hi Overgaard, Take a look here New article: Leica 90mm Summarit-M f/2.5 and other 90mm Leica lenses. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
LeicaBraz Posted August 9, 2010 Share #2 Posted August 9, 2010 Thortsen, excellent article. May I compliment you on the content of your site, which has been extremely valuable for a Leica newcomer like me. Sincerely hope you keep on at it. Brgds Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted August 9, 2010 Share #3 Posted August 9, 2010 Thorsten, thank you. A concise and extremely informative essay with superb illustrations. I guess you could make any Leica lens 'sing'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XK50 Posted August 9, 2010 Share #4 Posted August 9, 2010 << other choice currently. The Leica 90mm Elmarit-M f/2.0 went out of production in 2003, >> Possible typo? f/2.8 and 2008? Regards, John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdalim Posted August 10, 2010 Share #5 Posted August 10, 2010 Just posted a new article on the Leica 90mm lenses and their history, names and all, and with many examples from the Leica M9 with the 90mm Summarit-M f/2.5 which I've used lately for - amonst other things - rock'n'roll photography! Have a look, and please, if you know details or have information that should be in, feel free to let me know. leica.overgaard.dk - Thorsten Overgaard's Leica Pages - Leica 90mm Summarit-M f/2.5 tele lens and other Leitz and Leica 90mm lenses Hello, I am a newcomer to this forum and owned the M9 with 90mm F2.5 for about 2 months. Most articles I come acrossed always rated the lens very low as it don"t buy this lens. By reading your articles I can see now there is some way to get good pictures with this lens. By the way is there any complete and your prefered setting on taking pictures using the M9... thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted August 24, 2010 Author Share #6 Posted August 24, 2010 Dear abdalim, Welcome to the forum. It's a good lens but I think the marketing was done in a way that is not very Leica. Da they tripled the price and done the marketing otherwise, I'm sure the reviewers would have loved it ;-) I have the article on the Leica M9, especially page 12, where I speak about current workflow and settings. leica.overgaard.dk - Thorsten Overgaard's Leica Pages - Leica M9 Digital Rangefinder Camera - Page 12: My Leica M9 best practice as of April 2010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted August 24, 2010 Share #7 Posted August 24, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi Thorsten! Your post gave me cause to look at your M9 workflow page. Interesting, you arrive at the same conclusions I did. It is always gratifying to get confirmation from the pro . One minor niggle. You imply C1 does not support batch processing. It is correct for C1LE, but C1 Pro does do batches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted August 24, 2010 Author Share #8 Posted August 24, 2010 Wonderful to know we are at least two right people in the world I'm not at all a C1 expert, not even a user. I tend to give up their changing workflow and results after K experimented with them a couple of time and decided their level of sharpness were not made for Leica lenses (which does not need that amount of sharpness). I'm sure one could control that, but then again ... Lightroom works for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted August 24, 2010 Share #9 Posted August 24, 2010 Two right people should be able to disagree. I never was able to wrap my mind around LR, tried a few times, the last time with LR3, but no, I have the wrong sort of mind I guess.. I prefer C1.5 pro-->CS5. With sharpening strictly controlled - by me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanidel Posted August 24, 2010 Share #10 Posted August 24, 2010 Very interesting as always. The one thing that does not convince me about this lens is a lack of signature. It does look to be a great performer with good sharpness, bokeh and built. But I don't see a wide open look as distinctive as other long lenses such as the Cron Pre-asph or 75 Cron and Lux. I owned the 75 Summarit and it was absolutely great in all respects, but it also had no specific signature so I sold it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted August 24, 2010 Share #11 Posted August 24, 2010 Does "signature" = "quirk"? I too have owned a 75 Summarit (sold it because I now use a M9 instead of a M8) and it was a most un-quirky lens and I loved my "100mm lens". I am quite quirky enough myself. No need for additional lens quirks. The irritatingly sceptical old man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giordano Posted August 24, 2010 Share #12 Posted August 24, 2010 ...lack of signature ... it also had no specific signature so I sold it. Surely "signature" is down to the residual aberrations of a particular design. If so, less signature = better lens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted August 24, 2010 Share #13 Posted August 24, 2010 Surely "signature" is down to the residual aberrations of a particular design. If so, less signature = better lens. I agree. The 75mm Summilux was/is a quirky lens. Not to speak of the first version (SOOZY) 90mm Summicron. That one sure had a signature: Fuzz. Thorsten's pictures are superb and should silence the ignorant yahoos who think that a name is more important than performance -- or who, God fobid, thinkk that a name is performance. The old man with his irritating belief in evidence Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanidel Posted August 25, 2010 Share #14 Posted August 25, 2010 Surely "signature" is down to the residual aberrations of a particular design. If so, less signature = better lens. To each its own tastes obviously Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share #15 Posted October 23, 2010 Updated the page a little bit for those curious about the 90mm Summarit-M leica.overgaard.dk - Thorsten Overgaard's Leica Pages - Leica 90mm Summarit-M f/2.5 tele lens and other Leitz and Leica 90mm lenses Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
james.liam Posted October 23, 2010 Share #16 Posted October 23, 2010 Updated the page a little bit for those curious about the 90mm Summarit-M leica.overgaard.dk - Thorsten Overgaard's Leica Pages - Leica 90mm Summarit-M f/2.5 tele lens and other Leitz and Leica 90mm lenses You mention you usually shoot concerts with an R9 and digital back; any thoughts or coments on the R 90 Summicron APO? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share #17 Posted October 23, 2010 That will do the job nicely. I mostly use the 80/1.4 and 35-70/2.8. The 90/2 is almost too perfect a look ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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