I know this lens does not belong to the top line of Leica lenses. Does anyone have any experience/assessment of it?
Hanson wrote:
I know this lens does not belong to the top line of Leica lenses. Does anyone have any experience/assessment of it?
I own the Leica 180mm f2:8 Elmarit lens, the non-apo version, for some years and have been happy with it.
I found a blog by Eugene Fratkin on the Elmar-R 180mm f4:0 with photo samples taken with that lens and they look quite good. Cost wise it is probably costs about 25% of what an Apochromatic Leica-R version of that lens
would run. He bought it to use on a Sony mirrorless camera. Its compact size was the reason. It is about four inches long. Like most R lenses they are built to perform for years. Telephotos like 135mm are easy to design
compared to say wide angle optics.
Hanson wrote:
I know this lens does not belong to the top line of Leica lenses. Does anyone have any experience/assessment of it?
The “Leica Compendium” says the image quality is identical to that of the second Elmarit-R 180 f/2.8 version, which I found was about the same as the first Elmarit-R 180 f/2.8 version, which I bought new in 1969.
As far as I know, Leica only made two 180mm APO lenses - the APO-Summicron-R f/2.0 and the APO-Telyt-R f/3.4.
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