Leica APO Summicron-SL 90mm F2 ASPH lens review: The best money can buy

All modern lenses perform well, especially short-tele primes like the Leica APO Summicron-SL 90mm F2 ASPH, but the sizes over the last couple of years have become enormous. Admittedly, this is due to the makers' preoccupation with ultra-high-speed lenses but independents like Sigma and Zeiss aren't holding back. It seems that size is no longer a barrier, but that's strangely at odds with the trend in smaller mirrorless cameras. Even Leica, the maker of the original compact primes for the M-series, succumbed to that mindset with the first lenses for the Leica SL models Both the Summilux-SL 50mm F1.4 ASPH and the Vario-Elmarit 24-90mm F2.8-3.5 ASPH are optically outstanding. If you need lenses like that, especially when working, then it is fully justifiable, but no one could call lenses like that compact. Fortunately, the team responsible at Leica realised that photographers need choice and the new 90mm and 75mm Summicrons are the result. While not M-size exactly, the 90mm revie