sboyle92

Having been to Italy, and Venice in particular, I'd suggest taking a 28mm and a 50mm. I had in my bag a 21mm Voigtländer. As much as I love this lens, this and my 35mm f/2.4 ASPH pretty much stayed in my bag. Less is more and I really don't like swapping out lenses ever other shot. Less gear means more time for photos.

A horizontal pano of four images at the Dyrhólaey Lighthouse in Iceland taken with my M10 and 50mm Summicron Collapsible. 1/180 sec | f/11 | iso 200

A vertical pano with three images taken at the Hallgrimskirkja church in Reykjavik, Iceland with my M10 and 50mm Summicron Collapsible 1/125 sec | f/11 | iso 100

Kirkjufell in Iceland Country is a 463 meter high mountain on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður. It is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in the country. 1/4 sec | f/16 | iso 100 | Leica M10 w Voigtländer 21mm f/4

“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” – Edwin Curran Leica M10 w/ 50mm Summicron Collapsible 1/90 sec | f/5.6 | iso 200 - cropped in by 65%

this image was taken with the basic m10 - not the m10m. for post production, it was done all in lightroom. first was to apply lens correction as if any leica lens needs it, even my venerable 50mm summicron collapsible. next was to set it to b&w mode. from there, it was a combination of using the basic sliders and tone graph to adjust my tones. a special trick of mine to tweak certain tones is to place a horizontal gradient just outside the frame and use the range mask feature. by using the luminance slider on this feature, i can better target just the tones i want to adjust. to me, if i wanted to target just the shadows in the image, this works better than using the basic shadow slider because that basic slider will move around the rest of the tones. in a few spots, like the darker areas of the stairs, i did apply a radial tool and used a ranging mask so by using the luminosity slider, i could target just the deep shdows without affecting the surrounding highlights. i hope this all makes sense to you. thanks again for your compliment

A midwinter's scene - shot with Leica M240 and 50mm Summicron Collapsible 1'60 sec | f/11 | iso 200

"It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs." - Vaclav Havel Leica M10 w/ 50mm Summicron Collapsible 1/15 sec | f/ 5.6 | iso 1600

Leica M240 with 50mm f/2.0 Summicron Collapsable.

Leica M240 with Summicron 50mm f/2.0 collapsable.

Leica M240 with Summicron 50mm f/2.0 collapsable.

I bought the Fotodiox Lens Mount Adapter for like $25 to use my older manual focus Nikon lenses on my M240. It works perfectly. The fit is snug and secure. And, as there are obviously no optics involved, all that matters is the fit.

It was a difficult choice - until I saw how thorough the cleaning was and the results I'm getting from this lens. And it does look AWESOME on the camera.

Summicron 5cm f/2 collapsible on an M240. Shot at 1/2000 sec, f/2.8, iso 200 as a DNG. Exported as a JPG ( 307kb ) to fit in this post. No Edits, as is.

@Keith (M) I'm thinking, looking at the contrast and tonal range, the top image would be the ASPH.