What is your favorite M mount lens and why?

[baffosRF]

Summilux 35 preasph., both on digital and film.

 

[NaChase]

My beat to hell collapsible 50mm Summicron! Then again, it's the only M lens I own...

 

[santino]

50mm Summicron IV - ultra crisp wide open, very nice bokeh and superior mechanics 🙂

 

[whitecat]

I would have to vote for the 75 Summilux also. Nice signature.

 

[Ljós]

So far my 2.8 Summaron 35mm (M2-version). Images are sweet - and the handling and build quality are near nigh perfect. Every time I pick up the M2 with Summaron it just feels "right".

Greetings, Ljós

 

[andredossantos]

Used to be my 35mm 2.8 Summaron but my new to me v4 35 Summicron is sooo nice.

 

[tungh]

It's too difficult to classify which is the most favourite lens, I always use the Summicron 35mm ver 3 for streetlife, sometimes for portrait.

 

[Richard G]

I have the 35 Summicron V4 and the Elmarit-M 90 and a tabbed Summicron 50 but for me it's definitely the ZM 50 C Sonnar. Sharp, fantastic isolation of the subject wider then f4 and well built and compact.

 

[benmacphoto]

I feel like I've taken my best photos with a 50mm Summicron.
But my most used lens is a 35mm pre ASPH Summilux.

So its hard to choose between the two.

 

[varjag]

Summicron 35 v4, but for that matter am sure I could be happy with v3 or the aspheircal anyway 🙂

 

[JHP]

50 lux ver2. I feel like it's the only lens i'll ever need.

 

[smile]

i've got two 😀
50 Lux ASPH
35 Cron ver.4

 

[maddoc]

Noctilux 50/1.0
Summilux-M 35/1.4 (pre-ASPH)

 

[Erik van Straten]

Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid, Leica M3 and Tmax400.

Erik.

 

[jsrockit]

Hey, none of this two stuff.

 

[Biggles]

40mm Summicron. The lens has a fistload of stellar traits, and no bad habits. It's sharp, crunchy, has exceptionally yummy bokeh, and has a very natural, "no tricks" angle of view. It's furthermore tiny, lightweight, and endearingly oddball with its practical, bespoke collapsible rubber hood and its rarer-than-hen's-teeth framelines.

I have a 50mm v.2 Summilux that makes even more jaw-dropping negatives (the detail sharpness is less crunchy, smoother, more Zeiss Sonnar-like, and the pictures it makes look more grown-up than the Summicron's), but it doesn't perform consistently across its entire aperture range the way my 40 does. It's also so heavy that it's not my go-to choice as a walking-around lens. The 40 beats it with the sum of its parts.

 

[djcphoto]

From the meagre selection available to me, definitely the rigid Summicron. Very high resolution and a lovely look to the images it creates.

 

[The Meaness]

ZM 50 C-Sonnar. Classic design, modern coating.

I only use it on the M8 - the crop helps with portraits and limits the effect of focus shift.

 

[Peter_S]

Zeiss Sonnar C 1.5/50.
Relatively small and ligth yet bright, lovely rendering, two lens characteristics in one lens, 50mm focal length, and affortable.

(Now if they would only make a 35mm version to have as ~50mm equiv on the M8...I shot 50mm almost exlusively)

 

[Snapper_uk]

Zeiss ZM35/2. Fantatstic combination of size, speed, quality and price.