asiafish Posted October 29, 2015 Share #41 Posted October 29, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) I use a Summar for sometime now. This one is the best that I can obtain with clean optics. Very difficult to find a good one with clean glass these days. The way that the Summar give in photos is very special an quite pleasing for me. The high lights and point lights could come from the fact that it's optic is free from coating. I use also old 50mm Elmar : older ones "no coating" please me better than the same (built 20 years later) with coating. I could be wrong. My favorite lens is a 1937 Zeiss 5cm Sonnar with no coating. Magical. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 29, 2015 Posted October 29, 2015 Hi asiafish, Take a look here Leica to rework older M lenses?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Anlotti Posted October 30, 2015 Share #42 Posted October 30, 2015 New Thambar That would be intriguing - or would it be banned on health and safety grounds nowadays? Perhaps it could only be sold with a radiation suit, for use in a lead-lined studio. Models would have to wear a film badge at all times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted October 30, 2015 Share #43 Posted October 30, 2015 New Thambar If auto-focus could scream! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ash Posted October 30, 2015 Share #44 Posted October 30, 2015 My guess is the 35 Summilux Aspherical as the second hand prices are going nuts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted October 30, 2015 Share #45 Posted October 30, 2015 a new 75 Summulix a 35 mm Noctilux a 120 or 135 Summicron ... The middle one please Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornnb Posted October 30, 2015 Share #46 Posted October 30, 2015 No, the first one! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiggiGun Posted October 30, 2015 Share #47 Posted October 30, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Yes! The first 1 please Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardgb Posted October 30, 2015 Share #48 Posted October 30, 2015 Remember the 50 Apo Summicron was given life thanks to Karbe looking back in some old books. Could more of this be Kaufmann's intent? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrp Posted October 30, 2015 Share #49 Posted October 30, 2015 My 18mm SEM is a very good lens but there are times when I could use something even wider. I'd settle for f/3.8, or even a bit slower, as a modest aperture is generally not a problem given the use to which such lenses are put. Well you could do worse than the 15mm Voigtlander 3, which is at least as good as the 18mm, although not up to the 21mm Leica, if you post process, as the colours are not quite as vibrant as with the Leicas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted October 31, 2015 Share #50 Posted October 31, 2015 Hmm … it's interesting that no one's mentioned a Tri-Elmar up to this point. A 28-50/2 Bi-Summicron non-asph drawing on the Rigid Summicron's optical formula would have great interest for me providing it could be kept reasonably compact. I'd also like to see a rebirth of the 73/1.9 Hektor in new clothes but with the same optical formula. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colint544 Posted October 31, 2015 Share #51 Posted October 31, 2015 Be nice if they could go back to proper metal focus tabs, and aperture rings which click smoothly and positively, instead of spinning loosely back and forth. The current 50mm Summilux ASPH black chrome is a work of art, and so beautifully built. It shows Leica are certainly capable of building their lenses the way they used to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted October 31, 2015 Share #52 Posted October 31, 2015 A 35 noctilux is certainly the next big step. F1.2 and a few decades later an upgrade to f1.0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted October 31, 2015 Share #53 Posted October 31, 2015 Be nice if they could go back to proper metal focus tabs, and aperture rings which click smoothly and positively, instead of spinning loosely back and forth. It would be simple to add a feature to enable/disable f-stop clicks. Yes to focus tabs! I added my own. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlaing Posted October 31, 2015 Share #54 Posted October 31, 2015 It would be simple to add a feature to enable/disable f-stop clicks. Yes to focus tabs! I added my own. The Zeiss Loxia lenses have a pretty neat little de-click screw on the mount and include to tool to do it. The aperture ring, however, is on the rear of the lens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMJ Posted October 31, 2015 Share #55 Posted October 31, 2015 Would love to see an FLE version of the 90mm f2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted October 31, 2015 Share #56 Posted October 31, 2015 What would FLE add to a 90 mm lens? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlaing Posted November 1, 2015 Share #57 Posted November 1, 2015 What would FLE add to a 90 mm lens? About $2,000.00 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberti Posted November 1, 2015 Share #58 Posted November 1, 2015 It would be great if Leica released some more lenses in screw thread, I personally would love to be able to buy a 35mm Summicron in LTM . And add an LTM body maybe? It is just a day (week?) of engineering to recreate that M39 flange holder. (But oh no not another body I hear the Head of the Household say) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted November 1, 2015 Share #59 Posted November 1, 2015 A 35 noctilux is certainly the next big step. F1.2 and a few decades later an upgrade to f1.0. A 'big step' that is getting more irrelevent by the day. As the ISO capabilities of cameras are going up, and up, the need for faster and faster lenses is redundant unless you mean for dreamy bokeh alone? So buy a 28mm Summilux and raise the ISO, crop the picture, job done, with the bonus of the bokeh isn't going to be all that the picture is about. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted November 2, 2015 Share #60 Posted November 2, 2015 A 'big step' that is getting more irrelevent by the day. As the ISO capabilities of cameras are going up, and up, the need for faster and faster lenses is redundant unless you mean for dreamy bokeh alone? So buy a 28mm Summilux and raise the ISO, crop the picture, job done, with the bonus of the bokeh isn't going to be all that the picture is about. Steve That is the next big step as opposed to same lenses being "upgraded" ad nauseam with fle and various asph bs. A 35 noctilux would be a whole new segment into the M lineup. As for cropping, I'm not into that game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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