Your favorite 35mm glass?

I like any of my 35s. The CV 35 PII is microscopic, the Biogon faster and amazing in the corners with a very clean look. I have a summarit too and thats a very smooth and gentle lens with more modest contrast. In all honesty though, for docu work, the difference in the end result (print) is not much to write home about. I can work with any happily and will probably give one the chop in time, but having spares is handy as this is the one FL I cannot do without. The little CV is just amazing when one considers the cost.
 
35mm has been a long-time favorite focal length, starting with my v.1 Summicron, purchased new. Then the f/1.4 Nokton, f/2 Biogon ZM, Summilux ASPH, and most recently a goggled f/2.8 Summaron to use on the M2. I like them all but have been using the Biogon and Summilux the most. Another favorite "35" is the lovely f/2.8 75mm Aspheric for Pentax 67.
 
Summicron 35/2 v3. It's my first and only M lens. I love it dearly. Thinking about what to get next... any suggestions?

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Coelacanth, Mark-b:

Do you guys regularly shoot with a lens hood? Do you get much vignetting with it on? I have a v.2 Summicron and I got some 'unwanted' vignetting on a couple of rolls I shot this summer and I know I had my lens hood on. Just wondering what your experience was. Thanks!
 
Now that I look at it...the hood could be it, Doug.
It's 12538 and it appears to be for the 50mm Summicron.
I never gave it a thought because I bought the lens and hood together.
 
Had a 35/2 ZM biogon and just sold it. After owning an M-hex 90mm f/2.8 I want to try any of the 35's that Konica has made: the 35 UC, 35 M Hex, and the 35 M hex in LTM.

Most likely the UC, however.
 
That isn't to say that the 35/2 biogon is bad -- in fact I adore it! Great lens. It was, however, my first lens. I owned it for almost 4 years, and I wanted to try something new.
 
I've had the 35/2 asph cron, V4 cron, and prefer the V3 cron.

For summilux 35s, or overall best 35s, it is a cleaned 35/1.4 pre-asph. No distortion, no focus shift, no harsh bokeh, selectable glow/no glow, no vignetting, multiple hood options, compatible hood with cron of same era (v3 and 12504 hood).

You just can't beat the 35/1.4 pre-asph lux.
 
Hard to decide. My all time favorite was my first 35mm lens: a Konica Hexanon f2. Here's what it does in B&W (M4-2)

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Then, I snagged a nice copy of the Summilux aspherical... and that's one addiction hard to fight...

A poor scan from Ektachrome 1600... (M6TTL)

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Steve, is one of your shots from the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art? Looks familiar...
 

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Konica L-Hexanon 35/2.0. The true siamese twin of the Hexar AF lens.

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Derived from the W.Nikkor 35/1.8. Mine came without a hood, so I made my own from an empty filter ring and a step up ring, outside paint removed with sand paper.

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