Essential Leicazeisslander

[2lookdown]

I wonder why everybody are so crazy about cron 35 v4?
it's made like a toy, it's hard to focus with it, it costs more than previous versions, his IQ doesn't seem to be obviously better

 

[jsrockit]

Essential? Hmm, not sure. But what I've found to my liking, after owning many lenses, is:

Leica 50mm Summarit f/2.5
CV 50mm Heliar Classic f/2
Zeiss 35mm C-Biogon f/2.8
CV 35mm Color Skopar PII f/2.5

I can rely on each one to give me great images and any errors would be mine... unlike some focus-shifting pieces of shat.

 

[jsrockit]

I wonder why everybody are so crazy about cron 35 v4?
it's made like a toy, it's hard to focus with it, it costs more than previous versions, his IQ doesn't seem to be obviously better

BUT it's an internet legend (myth?) though...

 

[Biggles]

I get by with a 40mm Summicron and a 50mm V.2 Summilux. I could live with the 40 and a slightly slower, modern Leitz or Zeiss 50, if I had to. But the 40's the "essential" one in the mix, the one I wouldn't want to hit the streets without.

 

[Richard G]

I got my 35 v4 as the only available good second hand 35 in town, pre www. I knew nothing of its reputation until years later. I like it. I have it. I don't want to do without it. For fast work I could not manage nearly so well without the tab. I like the pictures it takes. It is more compact than most others and it is fast enough at f2. There's a better lens I should have with these factors?

 

[funkpilz]

A reasonably fast 35

 

[2lookdown]

I got my 35 v4 as the only available good second hand 35 in town, pre www. I knew nothing of its reputation until years later. I like it. I have it. I don't want to do without it. For fast work I could not manage nearly so well without the tab. I like the pictures it takes. It is more compact than most others and it is fast enough at f2. There's a better lens I should have with these factors?

v3? it's better

 

[filmfan]

v3? it's better

Regardless of which is "better" they are both good enough to take excellent photos.

 

[Moriturii]

My one fitty collapsible cron, got nothing else (except for same stuff for sale)

 

[CrisR]

CV 15mm/4.5
CV 35mm/1.4
CV 50mm/1.1

A great walkabout kit, each a lens with it's own character far more than each just being a crop of the one before it.

 

[MCTuomey]

I like my zm c-sonnar a lot. But I can't say I own any essential lenses, or any other gear for that matter.

 

[helen.HH]

of ALL the Lenses I have Owned
and thats LOTS 😱
the One that still Turns My Head is the 35 ASPH Cron
but in Reality ANY 21,35,50 mm will Do
as Long as I can Get the Shot 😀

 

[B.J.Scharp]

I think the only lens I'd really miss if I had to switch systems for any reason would be the 21mm Super-Angulon (f4 in my case). My other lenses, I could find replacements for, but the SA is simply unique in so many ways...

 

[sepiareverb]

Essential ... changes with time for me.

For me too. Right now it's the 35/1.4 pre-ASPH. 50/1.4 ASPH and 28/2.0 ASPH are right up there as well. Shot with the 24 and 75/2 and nothing else for a while this summer.

 

[Roger Hicks]

A lens. Then another lens. Then another...

Cheers,

R.

 

[Lauffray]

35mm Summicron ASPH

Tried many other lenses, I always go back to this one, not 28 not 40, just this one 🙂

 

[anu L ogy]

I will never understand owning more than one lens of the same focal length.

 

[250swb]

A 28mm Summicron, a 50mm Summilux ASPH, and a 90mm Elmarit M.

Steve

 

[Roger Hicks]

I will never understand owning more than one lens of the same focal length.

90/2 Summicron and 90/2.2 Thambar?

Cheers,

R.

 

[drew.saunders]

The last lens that I'd sell would be the 35/2 ASPH.

When I head out with just one lens, it's either the 35/2 or 50/1.5 CV. My standard 4-lens setup in a Domke F5 bag adds the 24/2.8 ASPH and "fat" 90/2.8.

The 24/2.8 is great, but rather large. I might get a CV 25/4 and carry both the 21/4 and 25/4 in almost the same space as the 24/2.8, but the 24 is really nice.