After a bit of tough negotiating I bought a Leica R 90mm F2 lens. The seller wanted $725 and offered a firm $675 as his lowest price. I offered $650 CAD and got the lens. This lens based on the serial number dates back to 1975. I will use the lens this coming trip in the dump. Gosh where am I going to get all the money I need? Spending way too much. Got a $2600 car insurance bill as well.
I need to make some good portraits with this lens, then that will help quell my hurting money belt. It also might help me with a print or two for coming "Families of the Dump" exhibitions.
Note* Here is a wonderful review of the lens. I will probably be shooting at F 2.8 for portraits. It is interesting that he writes that close focusing distance combined with F stop creates the bokeh (out of focus background) of a lens. I had never thought of what effect closer focusing might have on bokeh. He claims that this lens at F2 is very similar (subjectively even better) in bokeh to the lens I could not afford the "Canon 85mm F1.2 EF" in that regard. The F2 lens I bought is not for my digital Canon 5D Mark 3 camera (to bad, not sure if I can get an adapter to use it on the digital camera) but instead for my Leica R film cameras. Am still excited by the possibilities. Will do grain, bokeh portraits and also use it to shoot details and from farther distances to create some compression in the photos.
LEICA 90nn F2 LENS REVIEW
Here is a quote about bokeh from the above article:
"One of the main uses for a fast medium telephoto lens is obviously a portraiture type work. While Leica Summicron-R 90mm f/2 is not the fastest lens in its category (that title belongs to Canon's EF 85mm f/1.2L), the f/2 maximum aperture is supposed to provide enough creative control over DOF when needed. But Summicron actually holds an advantage here compared to the faster Canon lens - its minimum focusing distance is only 68cm vs Canon's 95cm. As I've been saying elsewhere, the MFD influences the DOF significantly more then aperture level (to some extent obviously, since there is a limit as to how much the closer focusing distance can compensate for slower apertures)."
Second Leica R 90mm F2 Review
Here is a quote about the Bokeh from this article:
"The lens is not nearly as sharp wide open as the 50mm or the 135mm, but it’s still plenty sharp and the Bokeh is on par with my beloved 85mm f/1.2L II USM as far as I can tell for now."
Note* For my Leica R system I now have a 16mm F2.8, a 21mm F4, a 24mm F2.8, a 35mm F2.8, a 28-70mm F3.5-4.5 (slightly damaged, lens hood stuck on backwards) and now this 90mm F2. Will be taking the 16,21,24 and 90 with me this next trip.
I need to make some good portraits with this lens, then that will help quell my hurting money belt. It also might help me with a print or two for coming "Families of the Dump" exhibitions.
Note* Here is a wonderful review of the lens. I will probably be shooting at F 2.8 for portraits. It is interesting that he writes that close focusing distance combined with F stop creates the bokeh (out of focus background) of a lens. I had never thought of what effect closer focusing might have on bokeh. He claims that this lens at F2 is very similar (subjectively even better) in bokeh to the lens I could not afford the "Canon 85mm F1.2 EF" in that regard. The F2 lens I bought is not for my digital Canon 5D Mark 3 camera (to bad, not sure if I can get an adapter to use it on the digital camera) but instead for my Leica R film cameras. Am still excited by the possibilities. Will do grain, bokeh portraits and also use it to shoot details and from farther distances to create some compression in the photos.
LEICA 90nn F2 LENS REVIEW
Here is a quote about bokeh from the above article:
"One of the main uses for a fast medium telephoto lens is obviously a portraiture type work. While Leica Summicron-R 90mm f/2 is not the fastest lens in its category (that title belongs to Canon's EF 85mm f/1.2L), the f/2 maximum aperture is supposed to provide enough creative control over DOF when needed. But Summicron actually holds an advantage here compared to the faster Canon lens - its minimum focusing distance is only 68cm vs Canon's 95cm. As I've been saying elsewhere, the MFD influences the DOF significantly more then aperture level (to some extent obviously, since there is a limit as to how much the closer focusing distance can compensate for slower apertures)."
Second Leica R 90mm F2 Review
Here is a quote about the Bokeh from this article:
"The lens is not nearly as sharp wide open as the 50mm or the 135mm, but it’s still plenty sharp and the Bokeh is on par with my beloved 85mm f/1.2L II USM as far as I can tell for now."
Note* For my Leica R system I now have a 16mm F2.8, a 21mm F4, a 24mm F2.8, a 35mm F2.8, a 28-70mm F3.5-4.5 (slightly damaged, lens hood stuck on backwards) and now this 90mm F2. Will be taking the 16,21,24 and 90 with me this next trip.
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| My new-used Leica 90mm F2 Summicron-R Lens |
