[Leica] What's the Best All-Around 50?

[nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)]

Quite. And I happen to think that the best Leica 50mm for me is actually a 
40mm - suits my vision better, is very compact and has a perfectly decent 
optical performance - I'm not a huge lover of the 50 (even if overall, I may 
have nearly as many as Jeffery - just not that many in Leica fittings).

Nick

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Langer <langeratcarleton@gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, 11 May, 2006 4:26:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] What's the Best All-Around 50?


I have another naieve question -- what constitutes the "best"?  It seems to
me that there is no one "best" lens unless you make clear the criteria that
one uses to determine what "best" means.  Value for money?  Sheer optical
performance?  Do compactness, balance when mounted on the camera, speed,
ability to mount on both a screwmount and bayonet body, etc. matter in this
evaluation?  Depending on the criteria, I could opt for any one of a number
of lenses to suggest, even with the limitation of only speaking of ones I
have used personally.

Mark