[Leica] Recommendations? I never want to buy another 50mm lens again as long as I live.

[Henning Wulff]

The last Summilux before the ASPH focusses to .7m and is great. Otherwise the Planar f/2 and Summicron f/2 (later ones) are your best bets. The Zeiss has to be coded properly, which is a bit of a pain.

Henning


On 2014-10-26, at 12:18 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks —
> 
> I have a lot of half-assed Leica lenses I’ve bought over the years for dumb reasons and I want to stop this. I want to get rid of a lot of useless junk (Oh f3.5 lens, why did I ever buy you?) and replace them with The Right Lenses. 
> 
> I have an M9, if that matters.
> 
> So far my (used) 50mm options seem to be:
> 
> Zeiss 50mm Planar f2 — $860
> 
> Voigtlander M 50mm f 1.5 — $900
> 
> Voigtlander 50mm 1.5 screwmount — $550
> 
> Summilux f 1.4 — $1300
> 
> 
> Important to me: Focusing closer than 1 meter. Not terribly important to me: super fast speed (because I can’t focus the 1.8 I have — unless someone wants to sell me a diopter). I’d just buy the screwmount Voigtlander, but the close focusing is kind of wrecking that one. I think the summilux only focuses to 1 meter too. which leaves the voigtlander M and the Zeiss — it seems the extra XYZ many stops might throw this to the voigtlander, but I’m wondering if y’all have any advice (or a 50mm in a drawer that I should be considering). I’m told the older 50mm Summicron’s, while affordable, aren’t any better than the Canon Serenar I already have, and I’m not going to drop $3,000 for a new version.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> kc
> 
> 
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