Help me decide: 50mm Summilux, Nokton or Canon?

[Sonnar Brian]

Well, I have a Jupiter-3.The focus was off my more than 1ft at 5ft. I backed the lens module out of the mount by more than a mm, using a 15x loop to judge focus at the film gate, and now need to fix-up the RF coupling. The lens looks sharp. The mount is awful.

 

[peter_n]

Closest focus for an earlier version Summilux is somewhere between 0.9M and 1.0M. When you consider the FOV of a 50mm that is adequate. The Elmar-M has a closest focus of 0.7M but I don't think I've ever used it that close.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I voted myself just because I got tired of clicking on the link.

I thank those who have provided samples. I hadn't seen such good samples taken with a Nokton nor the Canon 1.2.

I'm not going the Jupiter/Contax/Nikon/Noctilux route; that's just too much. I need some focus, however little that may be.

I got my Canon f/1.2 lens today, and I was very very excited; excellent coatings, overall, smaller than I had thought; a pain to unmount from an M-mount body. Unfortunately, there seems to be some smudge or haze in the rear element; when shining bright light, you don't see it, but peripheral, you can see it plainly; looks like a fingerprint, as if somebody had taken it apart and managed to touch the inside of the rear element with the finger.

Anyway...too much to ponder. So where is the winning lottery ticket?

 

[DoxLeica]

Hi,
I saw this late and have few pix to scan right now but I uses all three at one time or another...the Nokton for 3 years and the others as recently as 1996. Over a 45 year stint in photography, the Nokton is a clear winner. Keep that Hassy lens...they'll be in favor again...and buy more CV lenses later on. Now, the CV 40 is a winner too...maybe my all time favorite for Leica mount lense. My 21-40-75 could cover 90% of what I want to shoot. But, the Nokton can do it too with "zoom feet." Good luck with that Nok!
John