One dream lens for M9?

[Clandrel]

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If you could choose one lens only, what would it be, regardless of price?

[Julian Thompson]

My 50 Lux without question. But it's a personal thing - plenty of people will say their 21 or 35 too and I can fully understand that. I think it's a silly question (makes me just as silly for answering:D) because the M9 is a glorious system camera that can use many focal lengths but if you made me keep only one lens it'd be that 50 Lux for sure. When I got it I sold my 75 cron and my Noctilux because I stopped using them!

[Clandrel]

Yes, I thought this forum needed something silly for once:)

[Printmaker]

Tough question.

 

Most days it would be the 35 LUX ASPH II but some days I'd want the 50 Lux ASPH.

 

Trouble is, I love the way my 35 Summicron IV draws and how small a Leica is with that lens... just slips in a pocket or a bag and you hardly know its there, until you need it and then click, purr, its done its job. So maybe I already have my dream lens.

 

Tom

[horosu]

Summilux 50 ASPH for me, too. Just perfect, especially on the M9 finder.

[AlanJW]

50 Summiliux, closely followed by 24 Summilux

[shootinglulu]

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28 Lux asph, as beautiful as my 50 lux asph, that would be perfect!

[Overgaard]

50/2

[adli]

35 cron v4

[Double Negative]

I'm (rather) partial to my Zeiss ZMs... But if I had to choose ONE lens, it would be a close match between the 1,4/50 or 1,4/35 Summiluxes most likely. The 0,95/50 Noctilux is of course a killer lens, but I wouldn't want that beast to be my only lens.

 

On the M8, I'd have to say the 1,4/24 Summilux.

[Nicoleica]

Whichever lens happens to be on my camera at the time!

 

For with a lens you can dream of the images that you will make today, but without a lens you can only dream of what may have been.

[Revdockj]

35 cron version IV, also.

 

Ken

[Gilles L.]

50mm Summilux-M ASPH: i thought it was good on my M8, but on the M9 it is better than ever.

[tashley]

50 lux. But it's a very very close contest with the new 35

M lux, which is a less good lens ( though still pretty good!) but a

much more useful (for me) focal length on the M9.

[cam2000]

I second Gilles L, with the Asph Summilux 50mm lens it is superb on the M9! I also agree with Nicole the wise lady that each lens are very uniquel according to the scene we wish to portray! I think in the long run you are the only one that can decide what is best for you!

[JWW]

Another vote for the 35mm Summicron pre-asph IV. Although the new 35mm Summilux ASPH II is also great.

[larryk34]

The last one I used . . . which happens to be the 50mm Lux (pre-asph). Before that it was the 35mm Lux Asph (first version), and then the 28mm cron asph. If I had to choose one for the M9 it would be the 50mm Lux. The M9 (as opposed to the M8) has convinced me that I'm still basically a normal lens photographer, still learning how to make the best use of the wider 35 and 28 lenses. On the M8 I quickly preferred the 35mm lens, but now I realize that it was because it was the only way to get back to a 50mm perspective. In other words, it's more about the bias or preferences or experience of the photographer than the lens.

[Bo_Lorentzen]

35 lux or cron

 

though a 50 lux is a lovely thing as well.

[ohnri]

Noct f/1

 

Pure magic

 

Best,

 

Bill

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[kipdent]

Another vote for the 35 'cron. I can't believe how much I love this lens.