The lens or lenses you most regret selling?

[MarkP]

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Thanks for that.

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[Gary Clennan]

Mark,

 

The APO Extender-R 2x is designed to work with the APO 180/3.4 lens.

The 1.4x extender is not as the front glass element of the extender protrudes too much.

It would interfere with the lens glass when focusing to infinity.

 

Also, the 1.4x extender cannot be attached behind the 2x extender.

It would have to go first on the lens.

 

 

I use my 2X (non-APO) extender with 180/3.4apo and it works very well. FYI.

[LichMD]

I had a lovely 3rd or 4th gen Noctilux 1.0 which drove me nuts on the M8. I had it for 14 months or so and had a putrid hit rate. The straw that broke the camels back was a New Years jazz session with Mulgrew Miller and his quartet. Mulgrew was 15 feet from me and my hit rate was 1/15. I sold it for about $500 more than I paid, only to watch the Noctilux 1.0 discontinued and their secondhand value sky rocket.

And Mulgrew passed suddenly a few years back, so no mulligans there.

What do I miss most? Not having it to shoot on my M-P. I'm sure the hit rate would be higher, especially with LV and the EVF.

I'm going to have to buy a 50/0.95 now. 50mm being my favorite focal length.

[k-hawinkler]

I use my 2X (non-APO) extender with 180/3.4apo and it works very well. FYI.

 

Thanks Gary,

 

How do you assess the image quality of that combination?

I mean, relative to the lens itself? Or against lens with an APO extender?

[Carduelis]

I do not have any regrets selling any lenses, though I do regret buying the 75 mm Summarit lens. Although this an optically excellent lens, I bought it when I had a 1.5 cropped sensor camera and should have realised that I would go full frame one day and find it too close to my favourite 50 mm focal length.

[MarkP]

I had a lovely 3rd or 4th gen Noctilux 1.0 which drove me nuts on the M8. I had it for 14 months or so and had a putrid hit rate. The straw that broke the camels back was a New Years jazz session with Mulgrew Miller and his quartet. Mulgrew was 15 feet from me and my hit rate was 1/15. I sold it for about $500 more than I paid, only to watch the Noctilux 1.0 discontinued and their secondhand value sky rocket.

And Mulgrew passed suddenly a few years back, so no mulligans there.

What do I miss most? Not having it to shoot on my M-P. I'm sure the hit rate would be higher, especially with LV and the EVF.

I'm going to have to buy a 50/0.95 now. 50mm being my favorite focal length.

 

 

Why not a 50 Summilux. Only ~1 stop slower, better hit rate with focus, and the camera's high ISO performance will compensate for the difference. A slightly grainy/noisy photograph is better than a blurred one and adds to the atmosphere of the image.

 

You can attend a lot of jazz performances for the diffenrece in cost between the two lenses .

[dem331]

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I remember reading the advice many years ago, repeated by some in this thread - never, never sell a Leica lens. You will regret it.

 

I have only sold once, a MATE v1 which I really did not like. I regret it. I would like to have it, even if to confirm to myself that I do not like it. May be this is stupid, but its how I feel.

 

I have one lens that I do not like very much. The 21mm f2.8 Asph. My next widest length is 28 mm. I need to work out if it is the 21 mm Asph I don't like or whether it is this focal length on an M. But in any case I do not think I will sell it, even if I buy something else, which I am not planning to yet.

 

Rgds,

 

 

Enrique

[Printmaker]

28 Summicron. I sold it because I have a 35 Summicron and wanted a 21 SEM. Logically it was the right thing to do but I wish I could have afforded to have both. The 21 SEM is, however, simply amazing.

 

Camera? That is easy, a M2R. I sold it for 4X what I paid to finance a divorce way back in 1976. Dumb move - selling the camera not getting a divorce.

[pgk]

21/3.4SA & 35/1.4 pre-aspheric. I've re-bought them though, so apart from a few £s (and fortunately not that many), its ended happily. Not sure that I actually regret selling any others (of which there have been a fair few).

[sblutter]

A contrary replay:

 

I bought into the hype & lusted for years after a 50mm f1.4 Summilux ASPH and eventually was able to bring one in.

 

Hated it from Day 1. Way too heavy, razor thin DOF wide open useless in the field, too expensive to feel comfortable out & about.

 

50 Summi 2.0 ver IV is my main & really lovely. For all day I go old school, collapsible Elmar 50 2.8, plenty of DOF separation wide open - and even fits in certain jacket pockets!

 

Sold the 'lux within a month with no regret - and a $500 profit. Then traded up 28's from an old Rokkor to the Leitz 2.0 ASPH (which I rarely use )

 

Zeiss 21 does that job great

[AlanJW]

MATE v.2, which I sold to partially fund a M9.

Then I bought another, for much more $$.

Frankly I don't use it much, but for travel it is superb.

[mmradman]

I bought wonderful 28mm f2 and 75mm f1.4 secondhand. I am hoping previous owners have no remorse selling them, if you do rest assured they are in good hands.