Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The last Summilux before the ASPH focusses to .7m and is great. Otherwise the Planar f/2 and Summicron f/2 (later ones) are your best bets. The Zeiss has to be coded properly, which is a bit of a pain. Henning On 2014-10-26, at 12:18 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks ? > > I have a lot of half-assed Leica lenses I?ve bought over the years for > dumb reasons and I want to stop this. I want to get rid of a lot of > useless junk (Oh f3.5 lens, why did I ever buy you?) and replace them with > The Right Lenses. > > I have an M9, if that matters. > > So far my (used) 50mm options seem to be: > > Zeiss 50mm Planar f2 ? $860 > > Voigtlander M 50mm f 1.5 ? $900 > > Voigtlander 50mm 1.5 screwmount ? $550 > > Summilux f 1.4 ? $1300 > > > Important to me: Focusing closer than 1 meter. Not terribly important to > me: super fast speed (because I can?t focus the 1.8 I have ? unless > someone wants to sell me a diopter). I?d just buy the screwmount > Voigtlander, but the close focusing is kind of wrecking that one. I think > the summilux only focuses to 1 meter too. which leaves the voigtlander M > and the Zeiss ? it seems the extra XYZ many stops might throw this to the > voigtlander, but I?m wondering if y?all have any advice (or a 50mm in a > drawer that I should be considering). I?m told the older 50mm Summicron?s, > while affordable, aren?t any better than the Canon Serenar I already have, > and I?m not going to drop $3,000 for a new version. > > Thanks, > > kc > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff hjwulff at gmail.com