How about Leica R Telyt 350/4?

[henryk_barnas]

Please share any experience with Telyt 350/4. I am looking for longer

Leica lens and this is just about what I can afford. I already have

180/3.4 and looked at 250/4. Plan to use it on R9 and Canon 20D for

nature and landscape photos. Please post some pictures from 350 or

point me to the site where I get some idea about that lens. Dug Herr

has already covered 250/4, 280/2.8 and 280/4 in another thread so

280s are a side and out of my reach.

Thanks in advance Henryk.

[sandor_a._feher]

If this is that you can afford then get it.

I like the lens and I do have this lens. No matter what lens one have the most important thing how can you use it.

[karl_georg_wolf]

The TELYT 350 sounds like a pretty old design.

 

What about a 2x-Converter for your R-180/ 3.4 ?? You would get

a 360 mm lens

that way for the use on a tripod. But the need for a tripod would also

be there for the TELYT/ R9 combination. I would guess the results of a Converter + 180/ 3.4 would outperform the TELYT 350 ...

 

Best regards

[peter_yankin]

Jim Brick (used to hang out on the LUG)said it's the bee's knees. Erwin Putz says it's just so-so, very close to the second 250/4 in design only a little worse performer. So there you go. Take a poll and go with the majority vote, or try it for yourself. Up to you.

[ronald_moravec1]

Leica distributed a free book 20 years ago thru the dealers describing all the current R lenses. The 350 was compared to the 180 3.4 +2x. The 350 was the clear winner for a stop or two.

 

I can`t figure out what happened to my copy as it has been gone 5 years now. I sorely miss it.

[darcy_lorimer]

I recently bought this lens from KEH and also use it with my 20D. Wide open, exposures are about perfect, but a little overexposed at the smaller apertures (see earlier posts about exposure accuracy of the 20D with Leica R optics).

 

Can't comment on the relative performance, but I like this lens. With the Canon 20D, its a bit dark in the finder, so I recommend a Katz Eye screen which makes the spilt image usable to about f11 (since you have to shoot stopped down).