If you were to have only one Leica lens

[mfunnell]

Nice photo. But, why is it showing Fuji SP3000 in exif?

Lab scan. Fujifilm scanner.

Text if you'd clicked the image:

Hexar RF, Summilux 75/1.4 @ f4-ish; Ilford XP2, lab scan; resize etc. PSE3.

Big problem?

...Mike

 

[dave lackey]

No problem here, just confused...like I said, it is a nice photo! I really like it!🙂

Ah, maybe I will get a scanner one day that does a nice scan like that. It seems to do a great job.

 

[mfunnell]

Ah, maybe I will get a scanner one day that does a nice scan like that. It seems to do a great job.

It did , but it was a lab scanner. So the resolution wasn't great (I dn't pay the $$$ for a hi-res scan). Way after this shot I bought a Nikon 5000ED - now that's a good scanner! Unfortunately it sits in Sydney while I'm (I hope temporarily) an economic refugee in Melbourne, but when I get home I hope to make full use of it.

...Mike

P.S. Home-devoleped Tri-X scanned with Nikon scanner:

 

[ricnak]

I have three of the lenses in the poll options.

My favourite lens (the only 2nd hand one) is actually in need of repair. The aperture ring has no "clicks" and the focus ring often jams at 8m but I can't bear to be without it for a week to get it assessed, or longer, to get it fixed.

35mm 1.4 - LOVE IT

 

[Mister E]

Why do I have more than one lens? The 35/1.4 ASPH is all I ever need!

 

[sc_rufctr]

Noctilux for me. It would be perfect for my M3.

 

[MCTuomey]

all-around use, it'd be a 50/1.4

sheer imaging quality, the 75/1.4

 

[shadowfox]

Pre-asph 35/1.4 for me, please.
The size just sold me.

Plus I don't care about owning the sharpest lens, that's what my SLRs are for. With RF I like lenses with character 🙂

 

[smile]

35/2 v4
the best lens ever made

 

[Krosya]

Hello, I bought an M6 recently with a CV 35 1.2
now I'd like to try out a leica lens but they are so expensive that I can only afford one

If you were to have only one Leica lens which one would you choose/keep?

OP said above that he already has a 35mm lens. I wonder why so many people advise another 35mm lens? Wouldnt it make more sense to have a different FL?

 

[smile]

OP said above that he already has a 35mm lens. I wonder why so many people advise another 35mm lens? Wouldnt it make more sense to have a different FL?

there are just two types of lens exist: leica lens and non leica lens. he asks about first one

 

[mirrored]

Tri-Elmar without doubt. Of cource it would not satisfy for very low light conditions, but the answer is it. Tri-Elmar is now mentioned twice.

(I use both 35 and 50mm FLs now. Two body helps.)

 

[ivansanzana]

35mm 1.4, great to shoot street scenes, people, architecture, good for low light, rugged, short, light, all around great lens.

 

[Ronald M]

50 2.8 last version is a very nice lens.

Second choice is my 1969 Summicron.

35 2.0 version4 and the current 90 4.0 are the two other lenses in my standby kit.

 

[jbr]

Summicron-C 2/40. Chirpy cheap, tiny and featherweight, very sharp from wide open, fast focussing, no front- or backfocus, unobtrusive... whenever I have this lens mounted on my M8 I feel confident and free.

 

[marcbcn]

I've voted for Summicron 50mm f2

 

[robklurfield]

not this one

 

[drec]

I had already voted on a 50/2, as I had owned a CV Heliar 50/2 until around a month ago... so, only a Jupiter 50/2 for the Leica... and then, this past weekend, I was on the verge of selling the Leica!

I decided not to, and have decided to go with a 50/1.4 Canon ltm from KEH. Back in the game! And with a 50/1.4 for the first time, not a 50/2!

I think I'd stay with a Summicron 50/2 if I could afford Leica glass as opposed to buying the Summilux; the Canon 50/1.4 that I am purchasing, however, actually has a better reputation than the Canon 50/1.8 in many corners.

 

[thomas ciulei]

i might run into lots of trouble here for saying this, but i'd go with the Leitz Vario-Elmar zoom, 28-70 mm, F 3,5-4,5, just because zooms are also lenses

 

[Erik van Straten]

Leica M2, Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid, Tmax400, silvergelatineprint.

Erik.