What was the First Lens that you used on the M9?

Sonnar Brian

Sonnar Brian

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I have a lot of lenses in Leica Mount. Some bought, Some made. I accumulated 14 IR cut filters for the M8 to accommodate them.

Waiting for the M9 to arrive, I've decided which lens to use on it first.

A Summarit 5cm F1.5. Classic Glass, Low Contrast, and an all-time favorite on the M3 and Canon 7. BUT: trying to find a 41mm IR cut filter for use on the M8, difficult.

What was the first lens that you used with your M9?
 
Konica UC-Hexanon.
Then my DR Summicron in close-focus range, of course.
Then I tested all my lenses against the M9 to see which ones were close enough to accurate point of focus.

Phil Forrest
 
CV 25/4P. Switched to the 25/2.8 ZM after getting the dreaded magenta edge. The ZM 25 is perfect.

I now have a 28/2.8 Elmarit Aspherical. A marriage made in heaven.
 
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Leica 35/1.4 Summilux ASPH for a few test shots, because that's my "go-to" lens. Followed by the Pentax 43/1.9, because that happened to be next nearest @ hand.
 
...my 35 Summilux ASPH that I temporarily removed from my MP. Now it's mostly the 35 Summicron ASPH or my 75 Summicron on the M9 with the 35 lux returned to its rightful mount on the MP. ;)
 
I don't have an M9, so the only one I've used is the one I used in the Leica Akademie: a 28mm Elmarit ASPH. Lovely lens, I want one.
 
First lens on the M9 was the 75/2.5 Heliar. "Too long" for the M8, but fine on M9. :)
 
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Only lens I had in the car, a 1951 Nikkor-S.C. 50/1.4 LTM with a serial that puts it as one of the first 1000's lens made in occupied Japan in the 50/1.4 config. The legendary "Time-Life set" I believe it is referred to. Anyway pics were weak, and I haven't mounted it to the M9 since. But I've thrown an adapter back on while typing this and will go try some low light shooting now.

Figured it was a cool way to introduce myself to the rig tho.
 
Pre-aspheric 35 Summilux (good) immediately followed by 75 Summicron (stunning). As I said to Frances at the time, "I've got my lenses back!' (i.e. no crop factor).

Cheers,

R.
 
I have a 1950 Nikkor 5cm F1.4 that came with a Nikon M.

David Douglas Duncan used the even earlier Nikkor-SC 5cm F1.5 in Leica Mount.

The Nikkor-SC 5cm F1.4 and the Summarit 5cm F1.5 are about as far away from each other in design as you can get. I like both. The Nikkor, a Sonnar formula lens, yields higher contrast. I've seen it blow highlights and lose shadow detail. The Summarit- almost impossible to saturate the image when using it.
 
My first lens was a 50 lux ASPH that I bought with the M9 followed closely by the 28 Elmarit and 90 pre-APO cron. Yes I traded a lot of Nikon gear for all of that...
Later I acquired a pre-ASPH 35 lux and that stays on the camera most of the time...
Pete
 
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