Get me inspired on 50 Summilux ASPH

You will have to join a gym and build up some muscle if one of these is attached to your M. The silver one I saw was one heavy lens.

If you need 1.4, that is a good as it gets. If you do outside travel pics, buy a `cron or 2.8 new design elmar.

Monitor pics do not show off the extreme sharpness of the new lenses, so posting does not do much good.

I am using a 35 pre asph, new 50 2.8, new 90 4.0. The 35 could be better at 2.0, but then again I used it there only once or twice anyway.
 
I want to shoot portra or uc in low light with wide open, have a smooth tones and creamy bokeh, also to be sharp and I guess that what this lens is, alkis has alot of black and white pictures, I am interested in seeing color film shots from this marvel lens.
Check this out, I love tonality of these photos http://www.gerarduferas.com/
 
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You are going to laugh, I am thinking of selling both to get a 50 Summilux. I do love the 50, it is a great lens, but I also have a rigid Summicron which is a perfect match for my M3 and the lux will take the role of 50 on my M6. The 35 is also a wonderful lens. But, every time I use it I want to sell it, until I get the photos developed and see how wonderful they look. It is a small stubby lens with the clumpy nob. Those are the things everyone else in the world loves, I just don't like the ergonomics of the lens.

I need to make sure I won't regret these sales, but this is where they will be listed.
 
Well .. i did not use mine very much after getting the Noctilux.
But since you do not like to blur the pictures ..... you do not need the 50 lux asph either 😉
Honestly .... i think the 50 lux asph only makes sense if you intend to use it a lot at 1.4.
Only minor point of the 50 asph is the bokeh ... it's highly personal .... but i do not like it very much.
For the price of the 50 lux asph .. you can buy (2nd hand:lnib) ... 35 cron asph + 50 cron .... thought about that?
 
J. Borger : I love to blur images, I just don`t love to blur images with 3 kilogram lens on rangefinder 😛 cron`s are great ofcourse, I hate focusing tab on 35mm leica lenses 🙁 I just started thinking about sonnar 50 f/1.5
 
I like what I have seen from the ZI 50/1.5 so far, but for fear of sounding like someone else, I do think the images from the Summilux have a magical quality. It is totally subjective, but the tones and character I see from the Summilux attract me. Nothing yet from the fast ZI has grabbed me like that.
 
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