Selling Lenses

[dancook]

Advertisement (gone after registration)

If you aren’t using the SL and long zoom, sell that too. You will survive! Go buy a nice sporty car and do a few track days. That will really blow your mind

 

haha don't tempt me  

[Mute-on]

I’m serious. It will be the best thing you’ve ever done.

Edited December 29, 2017 by Mute-on

[Etruscello]

You may be carrying too much gear, especially for wedding coverage. Sell the Q, the 24 which you find too wide, the 90 which frustrates you, and the SL which is too big, and its zoom which seems to be too long for you. Buy the 28 f1.4 for your M10 as well as a 75 f2. If you do buy the 75, sell the 50 as well. That will leave you with an M10, 28 (which you can use as you used the Q), 35 and 75. That is a comprehensive (for what seems to be your needs) and compact system. When you have the funds, buy a second camera for dual lens usage or back up. Buy an M 240 if you need video or another M10 if you do not. To save money on the second camera, M type 262 would be a good alternative to another M10. I’ve been guessing what your needs and preferences are and putting too much of my self in the mix. So rather than conclude by saying what you should do, I’d say what I find useful and convenient: one M system, 10 and tyoe 262, with 28. 35 and 75 lenses. [if you occasionally need to use video or go long, add a Lumix to your bag with a wide to long zoom, e.g., GX8 with 14 to 140 zoom (28 to 280mm equivalent).] Good luck. Tom

Edited December 29, 2017 by Etruscello

[fsprow]

The best long term option would be to sell unused lenses to simplify and use the proceeds to purchase a nice present for your wife or friend.

 

Frank

[zakzavada]

Hone your skills, stick to 1-2 lenses. 

[dancook]

Hone your skills, stick to 1-2 lenses. 

 

I did just use the Leica Q for about a year, and I was pretty happy with that until I fancied adding a 50mm to get shots with parallel lines - getting an interchangeable camera system then just provided too much temptation SL then the M10.

 

You may be carrying too much gear, especially for wedding coverage. Sell the Q, the 24 which you find too wide, the 90 which frustrates you, and the SL which is too big, and its zoom which seems to be too long for you. Buy the 28 f1.4 for your M10 as well as a 75 f2. If you do buy the 75, sell the 50 as well. That will leave you with an M10, 28 (which you can use as you used the Q), 35 and 75. That is a comprehensive (for what seems to be your needs) and compact system. When you have the funds, buy a second camera for dual lens usage or back up. Buy an M 240 if you need video or another M10 if you do not. To save money on the second camera, M type 262 would be a good alternative to another M10. I’ve been guessing what your needs and preferences are and putting too much of my self in the mix. So rather than conclude by saying what you should do, I’d say what I find useful and convenient: one M system, 10 and tyoe 262, with 28. 35 and 75 lenses. [if you occasionally need to use video or go long, add a Lumix to your bag with a wide to long zoom, e.g., GX8 with 14 to 140 zoom (28 to 280mm equivalent).] Good luck. Tom

 

I'm not sure the M10 + 28mm will be able to replace my Q because I value having that fast AF. I find the Q and M10+50 complement each other nicely.

 

I do have the SL already has a backup to the M10, I haven't turned it on for a while now. (but I have been busy with the house)

Edited December 29, 2017 by dancook

[michaelwj]

Advertisement (gone after registration)

Never sell an M lens.

I don't get this logic. M lenses are just a thing, a thing can be bought, sold, and bought again. Sure, you might buy the same lens back again, but what's the problem with that? Not that many lenses really inflate in price that much, and the money gained from selling a lens can be put towards other pursuits in the interim.

 

I'd prefer to use my money in other ways than tied up in lenses I don't use.

[Gregm61]

 

 

 

So sell the 24mm 1.4 and 90mm 2.0 ? 

 

I don't sell lenses...

 

Which means, I have ALOT of lenses today. I also have no regrets for having sold one that I wish I didn't and often go back to more than a few of them, changing my outfit up, either just to do something different from time to time, or change based on what I think I'll need for a specific outing or trip.

 

Now, I JUST took delivery today of a brand-new 35mm f1.4 FLE and this one looks like something that'll be much more of a permanent fixture on my M.

Edited December 29, 2017 by Gregm61

[dancook]

new plan, sell 24mm + 90mm buy 50mm 0.95

[Mute-on]

new plan, sell 24mm + 90mm buy 50mm 0.95

Hmmm. You could just keep your 50 Summilux and buy a gym membership ... same outcome

 

I don’t like the gym, so I’d get the TT and a set of R tyres for track days

 

Your clients won’t be able to tell you took their photos on a Noctilux, but your physiotherapist will ...

[farnz]

... 90mm 2.0 ASPH on the M10, is slow to focus for weddings and gets more difficult for use with rangefinder. Though I might like to use it for portraits outside of wedding usage, ...

Dan,

 

I recommend making sure that the 90/2 APO-Summicron-M asph will produce the sort of portraits you're looking for.  It is a blazingly sharp lens that, in my experience, most ladies over 20 find to be too sharp and revealing.  

 

I moved to a 90/2.8 Elmarit-M with excellent results and feedback.  Many ladies have told me that portraits with the 50/1.4 Summilux pre-asph is their favourite (and mine for M portraits) but the 50/1.4 Summilux-M asph is also too sharp and revealing for them.  They tend not to like being shown every pore, crease, wrinkle, pimple, divot, eyelash, and moustache or cheek hair and both the 90AA and 50 Summilux asph show those and more.

 

We chaps on the other hand don't appear to mind seeing every bristle, crater, crease, wrinkle, lash, and battle scar, since we tend to think they give us 'character'.

 

Pete.

[Tailwagger]

nothing too impractical for motorways and daily life, an Audi TT would be my 'sports car' - but I'd quite like an A5 otherwise. My wife wants a Renault Zoe

 

I have a TTS as a daily driver.  Keep the lens. As for track days, as I used to tell new comers to the Porsche club when discussing AX, DE and beyond, if you don't wanna be a crack addict don't smoke crack. Track days lead to mods, mods lead to trucks and trailers, followed by TTs, and racing, all of which leads to poverty. Ask me how I know.  When I finally kicked the habit, a weekend at the Glen was costing me in the neighborhood of an M10 per.  Glad I did it, but glad I don't any longer. 

Edited December 30, 2017 by Tailwagger

[malfaris]

I recently read blog on the new 28 f1.4 its so stunning , so if I were you I will sell 24 and 35 to get it really. to be honest I wasn't so impress with the results from my Q so sold it to buy 50mm summilux 

[dancook]

I recently read blog on the new 28 f1.4 its so stunning , so if I were you I will sell 24 and 35 to get it really. to be honest I wasn't so impress with the results from my Q so sold it to buy 50mm summilux 

 

Certainly not selling my Q, it's so versatile - I can take selfies with my puppy holding it at arms length..

[malfaris]

I understand its small and practical 

[M10Alpine]

I'm just a hobbyist and quite new to M, I dabble with a smilar problem. 

 

I have:

 

Leica Q

 

M Monochrome

 

M10

 

- Summilux 21mm

- Summilux 35mm FLE

- Summilus 50mm ASPH

 

I rarely use the 21mm and I want to sell it and test something different. A film Leica, or fund a 50 APO or f1 Noctilux. 

A Question regarding the APO - technically why is the 50mm APO such a match made in heaven for the Monochrome? 

Edited January 5, 2018 by M10Alpine

[michaelwj]

 

A Question regarding the APO - technically why is the 50mm APO such a match made in heaven for the Monochrome? 

 

 

Quick Answer: The lack of the colour filter array on the MM means it's effective resolution is much higher than it's colour counterparts (no interpolation) so it is the only camera that can take advantage of the extra resolution offered by the 50 APO.

[jaapv]

The Apo-Summicron is a very precise lens and a monochrome sensor is a very precise recording medium. So for optimal precision rendering, there is nothing better; but arguably nothing more boring

 

However, is this what you want? A Monochrom has another characteristic: it improves the image quality of vintage lenses considerably, whilst maintaining the character, for the simple reason that chromatic aberrations are reduced to monochrome edges. For instance, the Canon 1.8/50 LTM from the fifties is particularly suited. It is far more interesting -and far cheaper- to experiment that way.

[Jeff S]

Jaap's point illustrated here....

 

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/193239-old-lenses-on-the-monochrom-post-examples-here/page-1

 

Jeff

[Advertisement]

Hallo,

Look here: Leica M

[pico]

Not even to buy a sports car? 

 

I cannot imagine any Leica lens as valuable as a good sports car.

Not even an MGB. (speaking to my downstream neighbor)

Edited January 5, 2018 by pico