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The best lens Leica never made?


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A short European trip. Many of the morning/noon shots were done with the new Zeiss 85/2 (You can tell by the “0” focal length info) . This lens is turning out to be the best lens Leica never made.

 

Zenfolio | awolf | UK, Paris, DK 2008

 

 

...but they made and make excellent 90s... :) : for me, the best they never made is the CV 15 4,5... with a bit of Leica mechanical excellence, I think thay would have sold a lot at 6-8 times the CV price... :D

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Interesting and thought-provoking question, and I am with Luigi on this one. The 90 Summicron has to be tried to be believed, and the 2.8 is a winner too.

 

My vote would actually be a modern collapsible Summicron - the Elmar-M was (and is) superb but the extra speed would be most welcome at times.

 

Now. What on Earth is this doing in the M8 ghetto...?

 

Regards,

 

Bill

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Nice images, didn't look at the lens info on all of them, just the ones I liked most.

 

Interestingly the ones that really grabbed my attention were all shot with a 50m 1.4, not sure which one, but they are my favorites.

 

The Zeiss 85 while having excellent colour and contrast, seems to have a busy OOF image, see image #33 for example.

 

So, the 50mm........which one?

Some look like the Pre-ASPH and others look like the ASPH, maybe you used both :cool:

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The best lens Leica never made is ... the next one they announce ... ;)

 

And judging by the all projects that Leica has in mind, the next few months will be filled with surprises! New AF lenses for the Leica R10, a potential cine camera with lenses to compete with Zeiss`s UltraPrimes, not to mention all the new lenses for the fantastic S2.

 

But as Conrad pointed out very correctly, the two best Leica lenses ever made are most definitively the APO-Summicron-R 180mm and the APO-Telyt-R 280mm f4. Unless of course Leica gives us a brand new AF APO-Summicron-R 180mm Asph ...

 

The great thing about Leica is that we can always dream big ...

 

Cheers,

 

John F.

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The best lens Leica never made is ... the next one they announce ... ;)

 

And judging by the all projects that Leica has in mind, the next few months will be filled with surprises! New AF lenses for the Leica R10, a potential cine camera with lenses to compete with Zeiss`s UltraPrimes, not to mention all the new lenses for the fantastic S2.

 

But as Conrad pointed out very correctly, the two best Leica lenses ever made are most definitively the APO-Summicron-R 180mm and the APO-Telyt-R 280mm f4. Unless of course Leica gives us a brand new AF APO-Summicron-R 180mm Asph ...

 

The great thing about Leica is that we can always dream big ...

 

Cheers,

 

John F.

 

Just goes to show how much sleep I am NOT getting... :D

 

Cheers,

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