Annibale G. Posted February 26, 2008 Share #1 Posted February 26, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stunsworth Posted February 26, 2008 Share #2 Posted February 26, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annibale G. Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share #3 Posted February 26, 2008 well, I use a M7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spydrxx Posted February 26, 2008 Share #4 Posted February 26, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted February 26, 2008 Share #5 Posted February 26, 2008 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... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted February 26, 2008 Share #6 Posted February 26, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craftsman Posted February 27, 2008 Share #7 Posted February 27, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n Posted February 27, 2008 Share #8 Posted February 27, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicanut2 Posted February 27, 2008 Share #9 Posted February 27, 2008 Tele-Elmar 135mm Super lens and you can get it for a reasonable price on ebay. Cheers Jan Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annibale G. Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share #10 Posted February 27, 2008 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapp Posted February 27, 2008 Share #11 Posted February 27, 2008 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 :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n Posted February 27, 2008 Share #12 Posted February 27, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skjöll Posted February 27, 2008 Share #13 Posted February 27, 2008 Peter, does your Walgreens or whoever did the job process B/W? Or was it C41'd? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n Posted February 28, 2008 Share #14 Posted February 28, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hiles Posted February 28, 2008 Share #15 Posted February 28, 2008 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n Posted February 29, 2008 Share #16 Posted February 29, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
budrichard Posted February 29, 2008 Share #17 Posted February 29, 2008 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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