How many 50's is enough?

[FrankS]

50mm is my favourite focal length.

LTM:
black Summicron
col. Summicron
Summitar (on its way soon)
J3 silver
J8 black
I-61
Fed col.

Contax RF:
CZJ f2
CZJ f1.5 (on its way soon)
J8 silver
J8 black
Helios

 

[RayPA]

I like the 50 fl, as well. Somehow, and all of a sudden (literally), I have six—in ltm & M mount—and none slower than f2. As the earlier 'Canon 1.4 vs. 1.5' thread elucidated, you can never have enough 50's.

🙂

 

[Jason Sprenger]

50's collect in the corners like dust bunnies.

50/2 Summicron Collapsible
50/3.5 Elmar
50/2 Jupiter 8
50/1.5 Jupiter 3
50/2.5 CV Skopar
50/2.8 Industar 61 L/D
50/2.8 Industar 26

It's weird. I have a CV 35/2.5 and a CV 90/3.5. They displaced my Elmar 90/4 and Summaron 35/3.5 and I am not looking around anymore.

But in 50's, I can't settle on one. Even now, a nice Canon 50/1.8 would tempt me, weird filter size and all.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I've got a

.50 Thompson Center
.50 Remington 700ML
.50 Montana Rifle Works

unless you are talking about camera lens.

then I have

Contax Mount
CZJ f1.5 (2)
J-8 f2.0 black

Canon LTM
1.8 Chrome
1.8 Black

Nikon SLR
1.8 AIS
1.8 Series E
1.4 AI'd

Canon SLR
1.8 FD
1.8FD

Pentax 42mm Screw Mount SLR
1.4 Super Takumar (2)

Olympus SLR
1.8 Zuiko

Bronica ETRS SLR
f2.8 Zenzanon-PE

Plus I have some 55mm f1.8 Pentax Screw mount for Mamiya, 55mm f2.8 Micro AIS in Nikon and 58mm Topcon for a Super D.

One is not enough, I guess. I haven't figured out how to shoot more than two on a camera at the same time, yet.

Wayne

 

[Frank Granovski]

Haha, I have the same problem---too many "normals;" and to make matters worse, I just bought another 50mm off e-bay. :bang:

 

[Sonnar Brian]

How many '50's is enough?

How many did they make...

 

[back alley]

i could understand all this if we were talking about 35mm focal length.


wayne, do you see a difference between the chrome and the black canon 50's?

joe

 

[ch1]

Haha, I have the same problem---too many "normals;" and to make matters worse, I just bought another 50mm off e-bay. :bang:

Being new to RF, I only just now bought my second Nikkor 5.0cm to make sure both my S2 and R2S are each so equipped.

Meanwhile, back in SLR land, I just got another 50mm Nikkor to do the same and avoid swapping-out b/w the vintage F3 and equally vintage FT-3 that otherwise would have to share the same lens. Heaven forbid!

My guess is that you have to have at least as many 50's as compatible bodies plus one. After all, not only is is a great all-purpose lens - it makes for one heck of a sexy body cap! 😎

 

[peter_n]

I have four 50's and one each of every other focal length:

Elmar f3.5
Jupiter-8 f2
Elmar-M f2.8
Summilux f1.4

 

[lkgroup]

Speaking of 50's, I just shot a roll of film with a 1963 50 1.4 Takumar on a Pentax Spotmatic that I had CLA and refurbished. It was the camera I started in Photography in 1963. The negs are drying but they really look good. I think I forgot how good that 50 1.4 Takumar was.

leo

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Joe,

I like the way the silver looks on the camera better than the black one. I doubt that that is a good way to judge a lens. I have not done a definitive test on them to compare yet. I'll try to compare here in the next couple of weeks.

Wayne

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I have (currently):

LTM/M-mount:
Summar
Summitar
tabbed Summicron
E46 Summilux
Canon 50 f/1.2

Canon FD:
SSC 1.4
SSC 1.2 non-asph

Canon EF:
1.8 Mark-II
1.4

...not including those that were in my posession...

too many? nah.

 

[dcsang]

I'm happy with just 2, one for each body 🙂
50mm tabbed Cron
50mm Collapsible Cron

Maybe at some point I'll include a collapsible Summitar.

Dave

 

[FrankS]

... and then there's that Summarit!

 

[Trius]

Wayne: You only have one Zuiko 50? Major tsk tsk! There were at least five versions of the 1.8, three (more?) of the 1.4, and at least two of the 1.2, two iterations of the macro 3.5, and then there is the macro 2.0. I'm not sure if there was more than of the 2.0 macro.

Obviously, you have some pent up GAS. :angel:

Trius

 

[back alley]

Joe,

I like the way the silver looks on the camera better than the black one. I doubt that that is a good way to judge a lens. I have not done a definitive test on them to compare yet. I'll try to compare here in the next couple of weeks.

Wayne

i agree, i prefer the look of the chrome lenses over the black.

 

[XAos]

I dearly want a 50 or even a 65 for my RB67. But yeah, I could make use of a 90. It's strange looking at the world through a 180 all the time. Many people shots I've not been able to get far enough away.

 

[GeneW]

I'm not even a collector and I have ...

J-8 Silver 50/2
J-8 Black 50/2
col Summicron 50/2
Canon 50/1.8 (coming soon)

plus

50/1.4 Zuiko
50/1.8 Zuiko x 2
50/3.5 Zuiko macro (possibly the best lens I own)

Gene

 

[richard_l]

RF
50/2 Summicron
50/2.8 Elmar
50/1.5 Summarit

SLR
50/1.8 Nikkor AIS

 

[Trius]

Gene: You have the right idea! I have 4 Zuiko 50s, but I'm working on more.

Trius