M-lenses you bought, don't use, yet keep

[jaeger]

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90mm APO, not enough opportunity to use.  I'm keeping it because it's a beautiful and compact 90mm f2 lens.

[Stealth3kpl]

I have a 35 Summilux FLE I don't use. I tend to use my lighter compact 35 Summicron Mk4.

I have a 21/3.4 SEM I don't use because I'm not very good at visualising with a 21mm despite often looking through Ara Guler's photos.

I have a 90/4 Macro Elmar M with closeup attachment. I don't use it because I tend not to photograph things that are remote to me and I'm not involved with. I've no interest in macro either. It's such a lovely little thing though.

I have a 24mm elmarit aspheric which is very sharp but I tend to use 28mm as my widest wide angle. It's useful on my Ricoh GXR though.

I think that's it. Probably £7000 right there. I've a number of little voigtlander lenses too which might see use on the GXR which itself is rarely used.

My other lenses see regular use.

50 Summicron mk5 (holidays)

50 Summilux Asph (Wandering around the UK)

50 Summitar (wandering around town)

50 Elmar (pocketable fillm M)

35 Summicron mk4 (One lens holiday solution)

28 Summicron Asph (Wandering around UK)

28 Elmarit-M Asph (Holidays)

One day I'll get around to selling some off.

Pete

 

[evikne]

I wonder why the lenses I've sold always are the ones I miss the most. 🙄

[pgk]

49 minutes ago, Stealth3kpl said:

I have a 35 Summilux FLE I don't use. I tend to use my lighter compact 35 Summicron Mk4.

I have a 21/3.4 SEM I don't use because I'm not very good at visualising with a 21mm despite often looking through Ara Guler's photos.

I have a 90/4 Macro Elmar M with closeup attachment. I don't use it because I tend not to photograph things that are remote to me and I'm not involved with. I've no interest in macro either. It's such a lovely little thing though.

I could probably live with just the above 3 lenses if I had to do so (I actually have the 35 pre-FLE, 21 SEM and 90 Elmarit-M). We are all very different which is great😀.

Edited April 9, 2020 by pgk

[jaeger]

57 minutes ago, evikne said:

I wonder why the lenses I've sold always are the ones I miss the most. 🙄

so do all the ex-s. 

Edited April 9, 2020 by jaeger

[a.noctilux]

I don't know why over time, most lenses that I traded (or sold by necessity) for other gears had gain their prices x2 or x4 (some even x10),

when I want later buy them back.

[ianman]

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All my lenses are used, but some lenses are more used than others (said George to Mrs Orwell).

I have 4 which are used most of the time and I would not part with at the moment:

• 28mm Summaron
• 50mm Summilux pre asph
• 90mm Summicron Apo
• Thambar (not really an M lens, not mine anyway)

I use a 21mm quite often. Although I really like the Super Angulon 3.4, it is a PITA. So it could go and I would keep the Elmarit.

I would have difficulties parting with my Summar. Again, it's a bit OT as it's not an M lens.

So that leaves the following for which I am open to offers :

• 21mm Super Angulon f/3.4
• 35mm Summicron Asph
• 35mm Summaron f/2.8
• 75mm Summilux
• 90mm Tele-Elmarit

 

Edited April 9, 2020 by ianman

[spydrxx]

I used to sell those which weren't getting used, but in the last 7-8 years it seems that both they and the ones I kept (whether getting used or not) increased substantially in price. So why bother...I'm not trading up to the latest Leica digitals, so the old lenses I kept do just fine.

[Gobert]

I want all Leica M- lenses of the assortment, now and in the past. 
However, my marriage contract is forbidding this.

[pippy]

2 hours ago, ianman said:

All my lenses are used, but some lenses are more used than others (said George to Mrs Orwell)...

P.

[pippy]

5 hours ago, Al Brown said:

TBH there is only one lens.... The 7artisans 50/1.1......It is wonderful, special, very dreamy and, although optimized for close work, still quite useful at infinity at f/16...Yet I can not do any real commercial work with it...

When the 7A 50 1.1 was released I managed to bag myself an early (black-chrome) example and so good were the images it produced and so well was it calibrated to my M9-P that, immediately, I bought a second example in the satin-chrome finish for my M8.2.

My goodness was that second example a PITA. Long story short it was impossible to calibrate the thing for use at both near focus and distant subject matter on either of my digi-bodies.

BUT...

Fast-forward to today and I now have two different digi-bodies (M-D Typ 262 and MM1) and have tried to re-calibrate the pair of lenses with the unexpected result that the 'crap' silver example now seems to be working perfectly well at 1m focus wide-open and smaller apertures stopped-down and everything else inbetween whereas the black example doesn't want to play ball - yet!

Driving me nuts? Yes! But when they work well they really work well. I LOVE the way the lens renders the oof bits here;

M8.2; 7A (obviously); 1/30 f1.1 @ ISO 160;

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[Herr Barnack]

5 hours ago, jaeger said:

so do all the ex-s. 

The ex-wives you've sold are the ones you miss the most?? 😳

 

[Ko.Fe.]

9 hours ago, shirubadanieru said:

I’ve bought and sold too many lenses...lol reasoning is:

1) I don’t want to collect lenses so I feel bad for keeping a lot of lenses that I don’t actually use
2) that being said, there’s so many Leica lenses I want to try to try them out that I end up buying them just in case I like them a lot and want to keep them

In the end I have kept 4 lenses (for two bodies) and hope I can settle down with these ones after trying pretty much all 35/50mm lenses : ) There were only very few lenses I tried and sold and regretted. Those ended up becoming the only lens I have now:

Summicron 35 8 elements
Nikkor 35 f1.8 
Summicron 50 collapsible
Elmar 50mm f2.8

(I still have a lux 50mm v1 that I love but will prob sell as it’s just too heavy compared to the other two 50s)

Anyway good luck with your lens collection, regardless of how many you keep just make sure to use them. Otherwise sell them so others can                                                         

Same here. Many have tried and sold. Keeping only Summarit-M 35 2.5 for M4-2 and Nokton 35 1.4 II for M-E.

No plans to "invest" in Leica more for now. This kit is nice enough.

[Guest]

I only really use my 35mm f2.4 summarit on my m262.

I have a zeiss 28mm f2.8 but as before i had a leica i am rubbish with that focal length and i have a summarit 50mm f2.4 which i never prefer to use ahead of the 35mm.

So my kit is m262 + 35mm summarit and olympus pen ep-5 plus portrait lens and thats about it.

I do much better in truth with very simple options.

[jaeger]

3 hours ago, Herr Barnack said:

The ex-wives you've sold are the ones you miss the most?? 😳

 

this is call "uneducated" come to take a look.  I love to see people doing this. 

[RayD28]

I have a 35mm 2.0 asph that has sat on the shelf for over two years.  It's the only 35mm I own.  I have thought about selling it and use the money for a 21mm SEM and viewfinder..  However, there are so many people using the 35 that sometimes I think I'm missing something.  

[Mute-on]

My confession:

I have two 90s, an Elmarit-M in silver chrome, and a Fat Tele-elmarit, also in silver chrome.  

I’ve had both for well over a decade, and neither has ever been mounted on a camera.  I am a little ashamed of this fact, but still, I can’t bring myself to sell them. Each is a work of art in its own right, and I’m holding out hope I will make use of them on a Leica body of some description, at some point. 

Maybe I just need to get that M3 so I have something with a useful VF magnification to use with them ....

J

[Ecaton]

I take the fifth on this question. But would like to mention the golden rule for Leicaholics: Never sell a Leica lens.

[Herr Barnack]

3 hours ago, jaeger said:

this is call "uneducated" come to take a look.  I love to see people doing this. 

@jaeger I do not understand what you are saying here - please elaborate.

 

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[otto.f]

14 hours ago, jaeger said:

90mm APO, not enough opportunity to use.  I'm keeping it because it's a beautiful and compact 90mm f2 lens.

Me too, but I hate to publish this here. I do use it, but not much. Because once used, it’s always with great results. I would never sell it. Is it important how often you use it if it’s always bingo when you use it?