BigSteveG
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No one is mentioning the Hexanon line. Sweet optics. 1st rate build (better, I suspect then the current Zeiss crop).
You carry *five* fifties around with you? What on earth for?In my brown Domke F2 camera bag, I carry the following:
-Minolta Autometer II Incident Meter
-Leica M2 user body, souped-up
-Canon 50mm f1.2 LTM
-Leitz 50mm f2.8 Elmar
-Leitz 50mm f2 Summicron V2
-Jupiter 9 85mm f2 LTM
-Industar 50mm f3.5 LTM
-Jupiter 12 35mm f2.8 LTM
-FED 50mm f3.5 Silver Collapsible LTM
-CV 21mm f4 with square hood LTM
-CV 35mm f2.5 LTM
-"Big Bertha" 90mm f2 Leitz M-mount (coming back from Sherrie Krauter!)
-Leica M-5, Backup Body to M2 (arriving from the Netherlands)
Interesting. I have a number of fifties, but I never carry more than two with me at any one time.Yes I do. Use them all, at certain times.
Well I have and use the M-Hexanon 28, 35 and 50 as well as the UC Hexanon 35. Wonderful lenses all. Somehow, despite other intentions (eg. the Zeiss 35) I keep ending up with Konica lenses - and loving them. Not that there's anything wrong with Leica: my Summilux 75 is probably my favourite RF lens of all (bought when they were affordable).No one is mentioning the Hexanon line. Sweet optics. 1st rate build (better, I suspect then the current Zeiss crop).
Just for the records,- can you give an example for HCB?
best regs Wolfhard
Considering that 95% of photojournalists use either Nikon or Canon, I'd say that those two Japanese makers are the industrial caliber glass and mounts.
Leica hasn't been a serious professional camera since the Nikon F came out in 1959 and took away most of Leica's customers. I know the worshippers will start shrieking the names of people like HCB and Salgado. They represent a handful among the tens of thousands of professional photojournalists in the world. Most today use either Canon or Nikon digital SLRs.