Brad,
Beautiful and classic set up. You could stop now and have the quintessinal Leica combination. Enjoy!
Pardon the late response. I moved and have been doing lots of shooting. Thanks. I agree. I could have stopped there! Unfortunately (or fortunately) curiosity got the best of me and I picked up a #11817 Summicron 50 (III) on Monday. I'm still getting used to its long throw. I also tried out the next newest version with the tab and short throw which, while seemingly a better physical match to my 35, the helical had some play and being chrome, was nearly twice as heavy as my older version. Another small consideration was that the earlier version has ten aperture blades and the newer one, eight.
On a side note, my experience with the salesman was both humorous and annoying. He had a trainee with him. After the "coast was clear" and I was identified as a "user" and not a "collector," he began telling stories about picky Leica buyers and attempted to give the young trainee advice on how to deal with "Leica guys" in the future. After all that, when I later commented on the play in the newer lens, he blew it off and insinuated that I "Take it like a man," or perhaps "Suck it up. You're a shooter aren't you?". I just went on, trying to make an objective decision.
I also picked up two bayonet adapters. Both are Shimada-San/Elephoto. One is Contax/Yashica-to-M and the other is Contax/Yashica-to-EOS. I sometimes like to take pictures of large structures and because of the narrowness of most of the streets here the 35 just isn't wide enough to get what I want in the frame. That made me want a 28. I already have a Zeiss 28/2.8 and I've been wanting to use that and my other Zeiss glass on my Canon anyway so I took the plunge. It's like I have three new lenses for each of my other cameras!
The C/Y-M adapter brings up the 50 lines by default. At first I thought about filing it to bring up the 28/90 lines but since 28 is basically just the whole finder and I will also be
trying to use my Zeiss 50/1.4 and 35-135 zoom (try being the operative word), I'm leaving it as-is. I'm really looking forward to the 28 since it has such a huge hyperfocal range. I have taken a couple of trial shots and they turned out great. The Planar looks kinda big on it but not any more than the 1.5 Nokton. The real ridiculous combo is with the 35-135 Vario-Sonnar. Pics to come.
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