Which 35mm to pair with m240

[lct]

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Your interiors are brighter than mine then or your children or grand children are calmer than the little monsters around me. At 3200 iso, f/2.8 allows me to take pics at 1/50s generally which is much too slow to shoot moving subjects. This evening i had to decide between two equiv. 50mm lenses for my CL. One small 35/2.5 with 0.8m MFD and a smaller 35/2 with 0.58m MFD. Guess the one i chose. Hint, the other is a Leica. Now if i had a 35/1.4 on hand i would have taken it preferably. YMMV.

[Herr Barnack]

Take a look at the 35/2.4 Summarit - I have the 50/2.4 Summarit and have found it to be a truly excellent lens.

If finances permit, the 35/2.0 Summicron ASPH is an outstanding all around 35mm lens.

At the end of the day, you can't go wrong with either of the above choices.

[bayernfan]

Virtually any 35mm M lens currently in production is going to be just fine.  If you need speed and you're on a budget, the Voigtlander 35/1.2 and 35/1.7 are excellent choices.  Otherwise, a Summarit, or even a Color-Skopar should fit the bill.

[sanadsaad]

While I went back and forth between summarit and zeiss, someone went and bought the summarit 😥 In its place sat a Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f1.4 MC with hood for £395. I didn't do any research on it so didn't impulse buy. I'm tempted to buy it, shoot with it for a good few weeks and see if 35mm is my focal length of choice. If so, I can always sell my nikkor 14-24 and 24-70 to invest in a cron/lux. 

[Jon Glass]

On ‎7‎/‎30‎/‎2019 at 10:02 AM, sanadsaad said:

While I went back and forth between summarit and zeiss, someone went and bought the summarit 😥 In its place sat a Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f1.4 MC with hood for £395. I didn't do any research on it so didn't impulse buy. I'm tempted to buy it, shoot with it for a good few weeks and see if 35mm is my focal length of choice. If so, I can always sell my nikkor 14-24 and 24-70 to invest in a cron/lux. 

They just released version II of that Nokton 1.4...it sounds like it improved distortion and focus shift slightly and is getting favourable reviews but there's not a lot of end-user feedback yet.

If you want a 35 to see if you like the focal length, the Voigtlander 35mm Color-Skopar II 2.5 is a great little lens - extremely small with surprisingly good image quality...and CHEAP.