The 50mm Summilux pre-ASPH image thread

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M10, 50mm Summilux v3 @ f/2.8

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M10, 50mm Summilux v3 @ f/2.8

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On 8/29/2025 at 5:03 AM, brickftl said:

As some of you may recall, a while back I bought a 50 asph, moronically mistaking it for a 50 pre-asph. It's an excellent copy, takes great pictures.

But now I finally have a great copy of the 50 pre-asph, and I'm wondering if and for what purpose I'll ever again use the 50 asph. If I want more than acceptably sharp, the pre-asph fits that purpose stopped down just a bit.

I don't need the money but am wondering if I should nonetheless sell the 50 asph if I can't find a reason to ever use it over the 50 pre-asph.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

accurate in minimum focus distance is the reason I keep asph particularly wide open at 1.4 for portrait photography.

V3 has back focus at minimum focus distance at 1.4 which can be compensated by user leading back a little bit … for this reason I don’t use it for portrait but street photography (stop down to 3.5 which  I find it’s the sweet spot ) because of smaller and lighter than asph.