Your most used lens?

[TomB_tx]

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35 f2.5 Summarit. Back in film decades 50 Summicron v3

[Cobram]

28mm summicron v1. 

[Dennis]

w/o a doubt, the 35 Summicron Asph I (11879). It's my quintessence of an M lens. Perfect size, weight, and balance on camera, fast and smooth focus tab, and the IQ I need and want. In a few words, it's the one that makes me want to use my M10 more.

 

[84bravo]

I can do the majority of my work with just the 50 1.4 Lux ASPH. By far my most used lens, and I've got a lot of lenses!

 

[Gobert]

My APO’s 50. The 28 Elmarit and the 35 Lux are competing for place no 2.

[evikne]

It has changed through the years. In the beginning it was the 50mm Summilux ASPH. Later it was the Noctilux f/1 and then the 50mm Summilux pre-ASPH. Today my most used lens is the 35mm Summilux pre-ASPH.

[junix]

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Currently, 35mm Summicron V4.

Although I started using more and more my first love.. 50mm Summilux ASPH.

[Camaro5]

35 FLE for automotive/general stuff and 21 SEM for landscape.  I used a 50-R Summicron Ver. I last week (on M10-R) for some automotive and really liked the images.  Sharp with softer colors.  Might have to use that one a little more often.  

[jaeger]

24 LUX

[adan]

Most used? 75mm focal length, either as APO-Summicron-M ASPH or Voigtlander Nokton f/1.5.

They are just so darned versatile. Can switch-hit for either a 50 or a 90 (and frankly, most of the time with better IQ); best close-up ability in the M system outside the 90 Macro - and 2 stops faster; great studio focal length, and wide-open, a great stage focal length in dim venues. They are outstanding for copying 2D/3D artwork, and even documents (faster than I can switch my flatbed scanner from "transparency/film" to "opaque/paper" mode).

Doesn't mean I don't use other focal lengths extensively, and often prefer them for this or that. But the utilitarian 75s help pay for all those other focal lengths.

[charlesphoto99]

Typically it's always been a 28mm Summicron, but for the last couple of years due to some personal projects, my walk around has been mostly the 135mm APO-Telyt, or a 90mm Elmarit (135 is in for repair currently). 

[Stein K S]

Over the years the 35 cron v4 😀

[Michael Hiles]

50mm Summicron v5.

[MaticB]

If it would be only one - 35 APO, but I constantly jump from 28 and 50 summiluxes to 75/2.4  summarit and back again to 35 APO. Saying that, I've just recently received 35 APO and as always with new lens, initial enthusiasm keep this lens on M 10R BP, but with M240, lens rotation is constant as well as it usage. Generally speaking, summiluxes are for subject isolation and summarit for scene compression. 

[stephan54]

The Summilux 50asph was my most used general lens, now that I have bought the Summicron 75 the latter is getting my most used lens. I think the 75mm is as versatile as the 50, but somehow offers something extra (hard to describe).

Edited July 27, 2022 by stephan54

[Pierre68]

50mm Summilux Asph for me

[RexGig0]

My most-used M-mount lens is the Zeiss Distagon f/1,4 35mm ZM. I use both zone/scale focusing, and rangefinder focusing, with this lens, so, it is versatile, as are 35mm lenses, in general. I actually favor my Summilux-M 50mm ASPH more, but the 35mm focal length is used for more total images, than 50mm.

[Lelmer]

50 mm Summilux Asph followed by Summicron collapsible v1 

[Ernstk]

2.8/21 Elmarit M (pre asph). Probably 75% of my work is done using this lens, the rest is done with a 35 'Lux pre.

Ernst

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[rcusick]

For people using the 21mm focal length as edc - do you use the viewfinder or live view?