It's working fine. The lens does pop up the 90mm frame. The lens mounts to my Leica M6 TTL 0.85 without any problem. The focusing at infinity was a little bit off. I was not able to align the two images perfectly together. (I was able to do so with my 35mm and 50mm Leica lens). I think that's not going to affect the picture quality for that distance. Anybody has this experience? Please comment. Overall I am excited about this Konica lens. Very well constructed. It's just purely fun.

Chris Lee

-- Chris Lee (Rangefinders@yahoo.com), September 06, 2001

Answers

Konica QC is the likely reason your 90 doesn't hit infinity on your M.

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), September 07, 2001.

Hi Chris,

I think you will have more respone if you subscribe to the Hexar list. But anyway somebody on the net commented that the design parameters of the Hexar and the Leica may be different though based on the same mount. regards/wong

-- WONG kh (DOSI@maxis.net.my), September 07, 2001.

Chris:

Wong is correct -- there is also a much debated issue of film-to- flange difference (0.2 mm) between the Konica and the Leica. Konica admits to it as being there; yet many users of Konica+Leica say they don't see problems in their images. Popular Photography did a test a while back, and determined there were in fact some resolution problems seen when mixing the compnents. I think the real issue is how significant are the differences for ones style of photography...

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), September 08, 2001.

Hi,

Can you give the month and year of the Popular Photography? I would like to read the review.

Thanks,

Chris

-- Chris (Rangefinders@yahoo.com), September 10, 2001.

Hi Chris,

Can't help you there. By the way how are the images from the Hexanon 90mm.? regards/wong

-- wong kh (DOSI@maxis.net.my), September 11, 2001.