How many 50mm lens do you own?

How many 50mm lens do you own?

  • 0 - No 50's for me

    Votes: 31 3.9%

  • 1

    Votes: 119 14.9%

  • 2

    Votes: 140 17.5%

  • 3

    Votes: 116 14.5%

  • 4

    Votes: 82 10.2%

  • 5 or more - Oh dear!!

    Votes: 313 39.1%
  • Total voters
    801
Used to have a lot. Sold most of them, yet still have a few:
M/LTM mounts:

1. M-Hexanons 50/1.2 and 50/2
2. LTM Nikkor 50/1.4
3. Industar Coll. 50/3.5
4. Nokton 50/1.5

For Canons - 50/1.4 - one EF one FD.

Thats all. (well not counting similar FL in MF or 47mm or so in Fixed lens cameras).

Took me a long time to narrow it all down, - since I like 50mm FL.
 
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Leonon 50/2
Hexanon 50/1.2
Canon 50/1.5
Canon 50/1.4
Fujinon 50/2
Hexanon 50/2.4
Industar 50/3.5
Nikkor 50/2
Jupiter 50/2
Nicca 50/3.5

Zuiko 38/1.8
Zuiko 40/1.4
Zuiko 38/2.8 Pancake
Zuiko 38/3.5 Macro

Oh my God.
 
I own 2 (only 3 lenses in total, the other being a 35mm). Last Elmar 2.8 and an F1 Noctilux. Compact and light vs speed. Covers all bases and I enjoy using both. Recently returned from holiday in Lebanon and found myself using Elmar during the day and switching to the Nocti for the evening.
 
Mhmm. Start counting...

Carl Zeiss Jena 2/50 in Contax mount (spectacular in B/W)
2 Jupiter 8 - " -
Nikkor 1.8/50 AiS
Nikkor 2/50 Ai
Industar fo the Fed
Does the Zeiss 2/45 for the G2 count as a 50? guess not.

The great Ais 55/2.8 Micro Nikkor got stolen together with the wonderfully brassed F3 last week. Still angry 😡

Only 5. Room to get some more😉
 
RF:
FED 50
Elmar f3.5
CZJ f2 (converted to ltm)
Summar
col. Summicron
CV50f2.5

OM:
f1.4
f1.8
f1.8 MIJ

Nikkor:
micro f3.5 early
micro f3.5 late
55 f1.2
f1.4 x2
f1.8 E
f1.8
f2 early
f2 later
 
I guess I need some therapy!

I guess I need some therapy!

Leica mount (M and screw mount):

50 elmar ltm
Summicron 50 Canada
Summicron DR
Hexanon M 50 F2
Zeiss 50 f2
CV 50 f1.5
Jupiter 8

50 mm normal lenses for all 35 mm cameras in various mounts: >20 probably > 30

Normal lenses for all cameras in all formats from 35 mm "subminiature format" to 7x17 ultra large format: Probably > 50 total.

Obviously I am counting only prime lenses.

I guess I need some therapy! 😱
 
Haziz: What therapy? Just hang around with like minded ppl and you'll feel normal....like in this forum......

Initially i thought wanting to add another 50mm to my collection (making a total of 3) was not very normal but as you can see clearly from the poll, it is clearly ABnormal to have less than 5 hahaha
 
I have 3, though I may drop back to two.

1. Zeiss Planar (my favorite)
2. 1953-J3 (I love the sonnar design for vintage shots - plus, Brian says it is one of the best copies he's seen.
3. Nikkor 50/2 - Another sonnar. Seems to be built better than the J3, but I may end up selling it eventually. Seems sort of repetitive.
 
Wow! I LOVE this thread!!! Suddenly I feel a lot better about my addiction. I'm an admitted 50mm addict, but I have a lot fewer than many of the people here.

LTM (used with an M adapter)
Jupiter-8 50mm f/2 (I got lucky, this is a nice one)

Nikon
50mm f/1.4 AIS
50mm f/1.8 Series E (the two of us have a lot of history)
50mm f/1.8 AF
Lensbaby Composer
35mm f/2 AF (about 50mm on my D300)

Minolta
55mm f/1.4 Rokkor (not quite 50mm, but close enough, this is one amazing lens, sadly I hate the SRT-101 body)

Hasselblad
80mm f/2.8 C

4x5
nothing this size yet (I'm on either side) 🙁

Disturbingly one of the things that convinced me to buy a Leica M6 was the number of different 50mm lenses available. There are several Leica 50's I want, and at least one Voigtlander (I've rented the 50mm f/1.1 and liked it). Having said this, my next Leica lens purchase most likely will not be a 50mm, but rather a 90mm or 135mm. Then I'll start thinking about something like a 50mm f/1.4 Summilux.

As for why, different 50's even on the same camera produce different results.
 
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