What is the best Leica lens?

[Sebastian S]

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Am 17.12.2024 um 21:30 schrieb Rick:

Leica Super-Elmar-M 21mm f/3.4 ASPH is compact and offers great image quality for its size and price, suitable for street and landscape photography

i try to imagine street shots bruce gilden style with a 21mm

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[colonel]

1 hour ago, paulleica said:

You have forgotten all the excellent lenses from Voigtlänger in your list, which are on a par with Leica lenses.

In my experience AI can be spectacularly wrong. It is mostly right but often over general and keys off the wrong words. It probably got stuck on the word Leica.

[evikne]

2 hours ago, paulleica said:

You have forgotten all the excellent lenses from Voigtlänger in your list, which are on a par with Leica lenses.

"Leica lens" can be interpreted in two ways: A lens manufactured by Leica or for Leica. The question requires further specification (although there is no correct answer anyway).

[Vanillasludge]

The best Leica lens is the 50mm Summar. It frees one from all the stress of worrying about which Leica lens is the best.  

[Danner]

It's either an uncoated pre-war Elmer 50/3.5 or a current 50mm APO Summicron, I can't decide?

[Vanillasludge]

5 hours ago, Danner said:

It's either an uncoated pre-war Elmer 50/3.5 or a current 50mm APO Summicron, I can't decide?

I can make rubbish with either one!

[pgk]

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As far as I am concerned I have the best Leica lens. But a public forum is not the place to reveal its details nor serial number😆.

[otto.f]

7 hours ago, pgk said:

As far as I am concerned I have the best Leica lens. But a public forum is not the place to reveal its details nor serial number😆.

Does your wife agree with this?

[Sebastian S]

vor 10 Stunden schrieb pgk:

As far as I am concerned I have the best Leica lens. But a public forum is not the place to reveal its details nor serial number😆.

you bought the APO-Telyt-R 1600mm??? 😅

[luigi bertolotti]

11 hours ago, pgk said:

As far as I am concerned I have the best Leica lens. But a public forum is not the place to reveal its details nor serial number😆.

You are surely wrong, because it's me that have the best - cannot say details.

Edited December 20, 2024 by luigi bertolotti

[FrozenInTime]

11 hours ago, pgk said:

As far as I am concerned I have the best Leica lens. But a public forum is not the place to reveal its details nor serial number😆.

 

3 hours ago, otto.f said:

Does your wife agree with this?

 

Are you not setting yourself up for trouble now ? If you 'have the best Leica lens' the old question is bound to arise : 'why do you need another lens'

[pgk]

8 minutes ago, FrozenInTime said:

Are you not setting yourself up for trouble now ? If you 'have the best Leica lens' the old question is bound to arise : 'why do you need another lens'

I have a set of Leica lenses (including the 'best') which does everything I want😉.  But never say never.

[waytoosquirrelly]

I have four of Leica's fastest - and most expensive - M lenses.  The "best" lens of the four is the one that's best suited to the available light situation where I find myself.  Often, my 90mm f/1.5 Summilux is simply too "telephoto" for the situation.  All four lenses are amazing.  Sometimes I want more than just a photo of someone's nose.

[Rick]

What is the best Leica lens?

My OP post was meant to find out what Grok would answer to the question, what is the best Leica lens?   For those that don't know, Grok is Elon Musk's AI.  Elon is set to be the most powerful AI in the world in 2025 with more Nvidia processors in a huge AI farm in the US.  

It did not surprise me that members posted as if this was another standard question, what is the best lens?  These posts could not have been created by AI.  These posts were organic posts of emotion, creatively based understanding of the optics and human understanding of nuance of these optics. These posts were actually a rage against the machine, whether they knew it or not.

My take, Grok does not have "intelligence," only outputting what it found on the internet based on some programed algorithm.

Grok will never be able to understand the spiritual human soul given to us by God.  

The artistic creativity displayed on this forum is such conclusive proof man's soul in contrast to the cold analytic silicon intelligence with no Godly soul, it should be obvious that there will never be a real singularity.  

[pippy]

7 minutes ago, Rick said:

...Grok will never be able to understand the spiritual human soul given to us by God...

This is where I lose all interest I might have had in this discussion.

[TheGodParticle/Hari]

Come on. We all know. The best Leica lens is the one you’re lusting over, after buying the one you were previously lusting after. 

[oldwino]

It’s the Leica lens you just can’t quite afford. 

[Rick]

6 hours ago, TheGodParticle/Hari said:

Come on. We all know. The best Leica lens is the one you’re lusting over, after buying the one you were previously lusting after. 

Grok will never lust.

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Hallo,

Look here: Leica M

[otto.f]

15 hours ago, waytoosquirrelly said:

I have four of Leica's fastest - and most expensive - M lenses.  The "best" lens of the four is the one that's best suited to the available light situation where I find myself.  Often, my 90mm f/1.5 Summilux is simply too "telephoto" for the situation.  All four lenses are amazing.  Sometimes I want more than just a photo of someone's nose.

Funny, the 'fastest' M lenses are clearly the slowest in working with them.

[spydrxx]

 

Grok should have been named BULL SH*T😄