Leica LTM Collapsible lens options

[David Hughes]

Thanks very much for all the comments, everyone.

David is right, the choice is a bit paralizing. If they were all in one shop and I could strap them to a digital camera and compare there and then it would be easier. Perhaps the easiest thing is to try to exclude the uncoated lenses.

Part of me thinks I should buy a Zorki 1 to go with my Industar 50 and be done with it!!

Joking aside, I've looked at lots of Flickr now and I like all of the example images I've seen of all the lenses, and find them all different enough from my Tessar/Planar/Sonnar lenses to be worth buying.

I imagine I'll ring the shops and ask for their appraisal of the glass on each lens, and go with which sounds best.

Hi,

Your post rang a warning bell. Do be careful, you are standing - perhaps teetering - at the top of a very steep and slippery slope.

Worse still, jokes are often a harbinger of lurking thoughts. So your joke about the Zorki means you must tread carefully and - remember - the Zorki came with an Industar-22 or else a Jupiter-3 or else a Jupiter-8. (See the 1954 instruction manual for this comment.) So next you'd need something else for the Industar-50 like a Zorki-2 or 2C. And the FED-2 will need an Industar-26 or 61 etc. Authenticity can be very expensive...

Now apply that to the Leica III which will need a lens depending on the year it was made...

Here's a sample from an uncoated 1926 lens, a test shot hence the comments:-

and here's a coated 1946 Summitar shot:-

Regards, David