asiafish
All-Pro
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA
- Name
- Andrew
I was at the Leica Store in San Francisco last week and bought one of these in like-new condition at a very low price. It's a strang beast, but actually easier to focus than I expected, though without the benefit of viewing what is going on outside of the frame, kind of like an SLR almost, but with a small, distorted finder with poor frame accuracy.
Has anyone here used this lens extensively? 135mm has long been a favorite focal length of mine for portraits and way back in the mid 1980s was the first accessory lens I bought for my Minolta SRT200 (a K-Mart Focal 135/2.8 made by Kiron, excellent lens) to supplement the 45/2 Rokkor that came with it.
I've recently gotten back into 135mm with a Zeiss APO Sonnar for my Canon system, but I greatly prefer the Leica CCD rendering to the Canon CMOS, and of course I just like using Leicas more.
I'd love to hear from someone who has used this lens, what its strengths and weaknesses are and any advice for its use in the field.
Has anyone here used this lens extensively? 135mm has long been a favorite focal length of mine for portraits and way back in the mid 1980s was the first accessory lens I bought for my Minolta SRT200 (a K-Mart Focal 135/2.8 made by Kiron, excellent lens) to supplement the 45/2 Rokkor that came with it.
I've recently gotten back into 135mm with a Zeiss APO Sonnar for my Canon system, but I greatly prefer the Leica CCD rendering to the Canon CMOS, and of course I just like using Leicas more.
I'd love to hear from someone who has used this lens, what its strengths and weaknesses are and any advice for its use in the field.