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What other lenses do you use for Leica M, apart from Zeiss and voigtlander?


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I have a Nikkor-P.C 8.5cm f2 and a Canon Serenar 135mm f3,5 which I like a lot. The former is so worn the chrome has come off almost everywhere but the lenses are in brilliant shape. The latter looks virtually new with unmarked glass.

 

Edit: Just thought I should add some more in case it is of interest. The Nikkor is a really nice lens. It is quite heavy and feels very compact. But it isn't very large. I don't have it with me now but I think it may be 1cm longer than the Summilux 50 Asph and also something like 1cm wider in diameter. It blocks the finder a bit but not disturbingly so. I use the 75mm framelines as guidance and then the blockage isn't much to worry about. The one thing which takes some time getting used to is that the aperture rotates when one focuses (I guess it is due to the single helical? Please correct me if I'm wrong). No big problem though. Wide open it will really blur backgrounds nicely. I'll try to post an image or two later tonight.

 

The Serenar is a big lens, wider than the 4,5 Hektor and much heavier. It (at least mine) has a very reassuring focusing movement, solid and heavy. Very long focus throw (also the Nikkor has a long focus throw btw) which allows extremely precise focusing.

 

cheers

Philip

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The Jupiter-8 (50mm F2, so it's comparable in focal length/max aperture to a Summicron) is a sweet performer--mechanically and ergonomically, it's shite next to a real Leica lens, but optically it produces some mighty fine prints. And you can get one for the price of a couple of Big Macs--so it might be the best lens bargain around, in terms of price to performance ratio.

 

I also have a Rokkor-M 40, the last (CLE) version. It's very sharp and well-built; many people put them on a par with the 35 Summicrons of that era and perhaps somewhat beyond. It's not inexpensive--they usually run between 400 and 500 dollars or so--but well less than half the cost of a 35 or 50 Summicron.

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Below lenses are some that can be modified to M-mount with FF coverages.

 

Angenieux - S-50mm f/1.8

Angenieux - S1-50mm f/1.8

Angenieux - S-40mm f/1.8

Angenieux - S2-50mm f/1.8

Angenieux - S21-50mm f/1.5

Angenieux - P1-90mm f/1.8

Angenieux - M1-50mm f/0.95 (with slight dark corners)

 

Astro Berlin Pan Tachar : 50mm f/1.8 and f/2.3

Astro Berlin Gauss Tachar : 50mm f/2

 

Bausch & Lomb Super Balter : 50mm f/2

 

Boyer 50mm f/1.4

Boyer 50mm f/1.9

 

Dallmeyer Super Six : 1 1/2" f/2 (with slight dark corners)

Dallmeyer Super Six : 2" f/1.9 (there is LTM version)

Dallmeyer Super Six : 2 1/2" f/1.9

Dallmeyer Septac : 2" f/1.5

Dallmeyer Dallac : 85mm f/2

Dallmeyer Rareac : 39mm f/1.9

 

Corfield : 45mm f1.9

Corfield : 50mm f1.9

 

Cooke Double Speed : 40mm f/2

Taylor Hobson Cooke : 2" f/2

Taylor Hobson Cooke : 75mm f/2

Cooke Kintel : 50mm f/1.8

 

Foca : 5cm f/1.9

 

Hugo Meyer Kino Plasmat : 1 5/8" f/1.5 (there is LTM version)

Hugo Meyer Kino Plasmat : 2" f/1.5 (there is LTM version)

Hugo Meyer Kino Plasmat : 3" f/1.5 (there is LTM version)

 

Kodak Ektar : 47mm f/2

Kodak TV : 50mm f1.9

 

Kinoptik : 40mm f/2

Kinoptik : 50mm f/2

Kinoptik Fulgior : 50mm f/1.3

 

Kern : 50mm f/1.8 and f/1.9

 

Ross Xtralux 50mm f/2 (ltm version)

 

Som Berthiot : 50mm f/1.5 (ltm version)

Som Berthiot Cinor : 50mm f/2

Som Berthiot Flor : 55mm F1.5

Som Berthiot : 80mm f/2.8 (ltm version)

 

Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.1

Hexanon : 57mm f/1.2

Fujinon EBC : 50mm f/1.2 , f/1.4

Zunow : 50mm f/1.1

 

Wollensak : 50mm f/1.5

 

Please feel free to update more,I will update this list later as i cant remember all but these are mostly large apurture lenses that can be use on M-bodies but some of them need modifications.

 

Cheers....

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