Cheaper pancake lens alternative

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2 hours ago, cboy said:

I find skopars have a flat rendering in bw imho. You can tell how good a lens by how it resolves inner tonal detail in those low contrast areas. Sometimes in color the saturation masks that out 

The 35mm summarit does well on those areas imho.

Interesting! I did not find anything to be missing on digital. But every darkroom print was missing something to make it pop out. After very first printing from Summarit 35 it was even more obvious. I had 25 and now 21 CS and they aren’t that bad.

 

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It has been mentioned but not shown a 35 pre asph Summilux I believe V2. I have had this lens for 40 years and has been my got to lens on film Leicas. Yes it is an M3 but it has an M4 viewfinder.

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I have the Nikkor 28mm F3.5 in LTM and the sharpness and contrast are really astonishing at times. I have seen some impossibly good rendering with that lens.  Totally the equal of the Summaron.  Don't fall into the trap of paying too little and getting a copy in poor condition.  

If you like tiny lenes that fit in your shirt pocket, also look for the Schneider Xenogon F2.5 35mm lens. Also quite tiny and shockingly good. The old spherical double-gauss designs work really great up to F3.5 to F2.8. I have some 80 lenses for the Leica M and those are two of my favorites. With them, you can carry a full suite of focal lengths in your pocket, without a camera bag.