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Leica 90mm Elmar

17 November, 2025

Paris Fashion Week with My New Crush: a Pre-War Leica

By David Pauley

People-watching is one of the joys of urban life, perhaps nowhere more than in Paris, a city that I love but visit rarely. Quite by chance a recent trip unfolded during the autu...
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7 April, 2025

A Leitz Elmar 90mm LTM and a pinch of salt.

By Tony Warren

90mm Elmar on a Canon 7.
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6 December, 2021

Ernst Leitz (Leica) Elmar 9cm f/4 Collapsible – The Near Perfect Slow Lens – By Agata Urbaniak

By Agata Urbaniak

This is a review of the Ernst Leitz (Leica) Elmar 9cm f/4 Collapsible lens. Hamish recently reviewed the huge and very fast TT Artisan 90mm 1.25. This is perhaps the antithesis ...
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15 May, 2018

5 Frames With a Leica M6 and Kodak Portra 800 – By Martin Smith

By photowalkme

A couple of weeks ago I attended a Beers and Cameras meetup and photo walk in Birmingham organised by this site's very own Hamish Gill. I took my Leica M6TTL as usual, this is m...
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