Your "dream" M-mount optic

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The only reason this comes up for me was my thinking back to when Konica announced their limited edition 17/35mm dual-range lens (yep, I know "dual-range" has a different connotation in Leica-land, but I digress). What I petitioned for was a useful counterpart to this wonderful optic (which I'll have one day, but I'm in no particular hurry). That "dream" lens was a 75/135mm f/4. I still think this would be killer if made compact enough, although for the sake of size I suppose that maximum aperture spec would have to go down to f/4.5. Is this idea too esoteric in contrast to the 17/35 and Tri-Elmar?

Is there an optical formula that doesn't currently exist in M mount that you would gladly part with a given amount of money for? And not just for the usual bragging rights of ownership? At least this inquiring mind wants to know.


- Barrett
 
ZM Tessar. 50/2.8 or 40/2.8. Collapsible. I'd use it every freaking day on my CL.

Well, you asked :angel:

William
 
Erm...hm. Well...I dunno. A fast collapsible would be good...50/1.4 or so. A fast pancake would be nice also, but probably not doable...a 35/1.4 or so. I think the one Leica lens that I would most like is a rigid screwmount 'lux that goes for about the same amount as the M-mount 'luxes.
 
Wasn't the Konica a dual 21-35mm focal length? A 75-135/4.5 would indeed be interesting.

I kind of fancy the 90/4 Elmar with the macro attachment, so something else along those lines would be appealing.
 
AlexC said:
Wasn't the Konica a dual 21-35mm focal length? A 75-135/4.5 would indeed be interesting.
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Indeed it was, and indeed it would, alas.

What kills me about Konica, pre-merger, is that the photography bit was such a tiny part of their overall business picture by the 1990s, and yet it was important enough that they spun such gossamer as the Hexar autofocus, the Hexar RF several years later, and some quirky-but-extremely-desirable LTM glass in-between. The "good old days" weren't so long ago as we might sometimes think. :(


- Barrett
 
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My dream optic would be a collapsible 50mm F2 Hexanon.

Yes I know, will never happen.. but I can dream, can't I?
 
A collapsible lens doesn't really capture me. Granted, the 3.5 Elmar is tiny, what a collapsible should be, but when I saw that my Canon 50/1.5 was just about as small as the collapsible Summicron, collapsed, I didn't see the point anymore.

So, what would it be for me. Not to hard actually, I would probably choose between either the current Asph Summilux 50 or 35 leaning towards the 50 but wanting the 35 too, unless there was a modern 50/1.5 Sonnar produced.
 
Dream M mount lens . . . Noctilux. Cliche, I know, but hey. I love big, fast glass.

More practical is the Pancake skopar by CV. Small, light, nice.

Love the Elmar too.
 
If we're talking Dreamy dreams, and not just dreams, then I'd have to say a tri-summilux. Something along the lines of 24-35-50.

I could also expand my dream somewhat to imagine a quad summilux: 24-35-50-75

Or if I were to get really silly, a tri-noct 35-50-75

Those would be some honkin' pieces of glass though. Probablly obscure the viewfinder completely...but the pictures that were accidentally well focused would be lovely.
 
What wlewisii and rover said, modern Zeiss classics, a Tessar (aka Elmar 50/2.8???) or a modern Sonnar would be interesting.
 
I would like to have a 28mm 1,4 with a front not bigger than 49mm and not much longer than a 35mm cron. And affordable too ;)

Of course a noctilux found at a garage sale for 120 usd would also be nice.

vha
 
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