Hands-on with Leica's new classic 90mm Thambar Leica's newest lens is actually one of its oldest. The Leica Thambar-M 90mm F2.2 is a (slightly) modernized recreation of a classic 1930s design, famed for decades thanks to its unique soft focus rendering for portraits. At $6500 it costs a pretty penny too, which for our own amusement we figured works out to $325 for each of its 20 aperture blades. We're at the Photo Plus Expo show in New York, where we just got our hands on Leica's latest crazy di...
Hands-on with Leica's new classic 90mm Thambar Leica's newest lens is actually one of its oldest. The Leica Thambar-M 90mm F2.2 is a (slightly) modernized recreation of a classic 1930s design, famed for decades thanks to its unique soft focus rendering for portraits. At $6500 it costs a pretty penny too, which for our own amusement we figured works out to $325 for each of its 20 aperture blades. We're at the Photo Plus Expo show in New York, where we just got our hands on Leica's latest crazy di...
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