One of my favorite lenses.
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boojum
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I will just do some nice 50's. The first is the perennial favorite, a Cooke Amotal 2" f/2.0. The Rhodies are deliberately underexposed @f/4.0:
The Skyllaney Bertele Sonnar, 5cm, f/2.0 @ f/8.0:
The Skyllaney Bertele Sonnar, 5cm, f/2.0 @ f/8.0:
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Richard G
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1950s DR (dual range) 50 Summicron on M9-P. With close-up attachment.
The Red Leaf by Richard, on Flickr
The Red Leaf by Richard, on Flickr
boojum
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I have some good lenses because I have listened to and learned from folks on this board. When I started here I knew squat about lenses. Now I know squat+1 about lenses. Progress but not a lot. But you folks know about lenses! I have been guided in purchases, like the Skyllaney Bertele Sonnar, encouraged in others like the '57 KMZ Jupiter 8 and awarded some gems like the '41 CZJ 5cm f/1.5 SN 272nnnn. Add in a 35mm f/1.7 CV. And some nice 50mm Canons and so on. I have been really lucky - the story of my life - that folks have shared their knowledge so freely and been so generous of all.
Here is a shot I got early in the morning driving from Ely, NV to LA. It was NV Highway 93 IIRC and the sun was just breaking over the hills. This old CZJ was kind enough to make an ordinary scene just a little bit better. This lens is over 80 years old.
Here is a shot I got early in the morning driving from Ely, NV to LA. It was NV Highway 93 IIRC and the sun was just breaking over the hills. This old CZJ was kind enough to make an ordinary scene just a little bit better. This lens is over 80 years old.
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Tim Read
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Boojum - Good morning from Bondi Beach NSW Australia. Your good luck story above resonated with me as I have been similarly lucky. Here is a recent shot with my year of birth 1941 CZJ 5cm f1.5 T - also "awarded" as you put it. It could well be that we are lucky via the same sharer of knowledge !!?? 
An avenue of Paper Bark trees, one of my favourites, taken in Centennial Park which is nearby where I live.
An avenue of Paper Bark trees, one of my favourites, taken in Centennial Park which is nearby where I live.
boojum
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Here is the 35mm CV f/1.7. The reviews of this lens underrate it. I think it handles light very nicely. Here are two shots with it on an underrated Leica, the 240. I like the 240's color, just a shade less bold than the M9. OK, first is another shot of a fishing boat at Bornstein's unloading its catch. The second is same night, same lens, same camera a short distance away of a crane just because I liked the light and color.
The reviewers all have their opinions and some even know what they are talking about. But there are also folks who really know and understand how glass works when bending light and who can suss out the good from the bad. I listen to those folks, too, and find they have a better track record. Because they know.
The reviewers all have their opinions and some even know what they are talking about. But there are also folks who really know and understand how glass works when bending light and who can suss out the good from the bad. I listen to those folks, too, and find they have a better track record. Because they know.
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Dogman
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I have several favorite lenses. Most of them hover around in the "normal" range, which for me is a lens in the 35mm to 75mm range for 135 format. One of these favorites is the older Voigtlaender 28/2 Ultron on the Fuji X-Pro2. Being a 42mm equivalent, it's just about perfect as a standard lens. I also like the "look" from this lens.
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1934 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F1.5, wide-open on the M9. My favorite lens. This one was like Wax Paper when received. The earliest that I've converted to Leica Mount using a Jupiter-3 focus mount. Focus is perfect across range. This is from the 1607xxx block, a "Version 2" optical formula lens. One of the later barrels with filter threads that can be fitted into a J-3 mount. The formula was changed in the 166xxxx block.
I see a lot of my favorite lenses in this thread.
I see a lot of my favorite lenses in this thread.
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boojum
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mcfingon
Western Australia
Good one Tim, here's my year of birth Sonnarski, a 1951 Jupiter 3, wide-open on the Sony
The old Lubricants had outgassed, the lens had never been opened and cleaned. I had to use Big Bertha to open this one up.
Richard G
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Summaron M 28mm f5.6 solid brass, tiny. Glued to my M9-P. The light fall off tames the paving and deepens the sky.
skopar steve
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One of my favorites that I don't use much anymore is my OM Zuiko 50mm 2.0 macro.
Dogman
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The Olympus 25/2.8 pancake lens from the standard 4/3 system. I loved that little lens. I used an adapter to use it on micro 4/3 as well. It was sharp and tiny, even by Olympus standards. It always managed to pull detail out of whatever subject I was shooting.
From 2014.
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From 2014.
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hilltime
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Just bought a Voigtlander Prominent II (Why, I don't know, other than I always wanted one...). Went looking for my 50/1.5 Nokton lens and remembered I had mounted it on the Contax IIA Color Dial a bit ago, with the intention of loading up a roll and doing some street shooting. That was a few years ago before some serious health issues happened. Maybe it's time again with either the Prominent or the Contax, but this lens is still one of my prized pieces. In the photo, it kinda looks like there is some separation, but it is only because of the room lighting. Such a shame that so many of the great Voigtlander optics are afflicted with this issue. I have a couple....
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Godfrey
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Some lovely photos in this thread. 😀
I had a Nokton 50/1.5 some years back, sold it to help fund a Summicron-M 50/2 (series 5) which I enjoy even more. But the Nokton had very interesting rendering near wide open and I missed that. So, a decade and some later, I bought one of the new-ish Voigtländer Heliar Classic 50mm f/1.5 VM lenses ... I haven't used it quite enough yet to suit my taste in evaluations, but I like it a lot and it has at least as much 'character' as the Nokton did. In use, it reminds me a lot of the 1972 Summilux 35mm f/1.4 typ 2, one of my favorites as well.
So many nice choices to use and enjoy ... There really isn't time enough.
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I had a Nokton 50/1.5 some years back, sold it to help fund a Summicron-M 50/2 (series 5) which I enjoy even more. But the Nokton had very interesting rendering near wide open and I missed that. So, a decade and some later, I bought one of the new-ish Voigtländer Heliar Classic 50mm f/1.5 VM lenses ... I haven't used it quite enough yet to suit my taste in evaluations, but I like it a lot and it has at least as much 'character' as the Nokton did. In use, it reminds me a lot of the 1972 Summilux 35mm f/1.4 typ 2, one of my favorites as well.
So many nice choices to use and enjoy ... There really isn't time enough.
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dexdog
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1949 ZK 50/1.5
Dogman
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Oh boy. I had just gotten the 21/2.8 Biogon ZM and an adapter to use it on my Nikon Z cameras. I hadn't used it much but I was determined to take a picture or two with it. Off to the store on a rainy evening. I was leaving after having not much luck in the picture-taking department when I noticed this check-out lady watching me. I had zero chance for focusing, etc., and I knew the overhead lighting would mess up exposure but I had no time to adjust the EC. What to do? Just take the effin' picture. Got home with three frames looking like this.
So I opened the JPG in LR and went to work. And got this.
Not bad for a non-focused, under exposed grab shot. So now the 21mm Biogon ZM is one of my favorite lenses. And the Nikon Z5 is one of my favorite cameras.
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So I opened the JPG in LR and went to work. And got this.
Not bad for a non-focused, under exposed grab shot. So now the 21mm Biogon ZM is one of my favorite lenses. And the Nikon Z5 is one of my favorite cameras.
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hilltime
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And maybe the Nokton belongs here!
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I found the Prominent Nokton to be closer to the Nikon Standard- used it on my Nikon S2.
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