[Leica] Advantages of M lenses on the SL compared to R lenses? Adapters?

[Mark Rabiner]

The 24-70 I'd maybe start out with even though it’s a tad big but not really huge.
A classic normal zoom I'm very fond of though many serious shooters hate them.
I'm ok with a standard zoom all day out shooting with no other lens in my side bag.
I have a 24-85 on my camera now. Though it gives me a 35-130 with the crop factor.
I actually use to use a 35-135 lens shooting film an early AF.
It’s a classic lens from all I can see.
Nowadays the main lenses sold in the cropped formats are idiot zooms do all be all from ultra-wide to ultra-tele.
I keep looking for more conservatively designed ones which are more compact with less than a million elements in them.
I still think a zoom for each category is the way I like to go. Wide, standard and tele.

Robert I love my newish 50mm 1.8G its not super compact but is super light weight. Super sharp.  Super cheap. Super classic.
A darned shame the 35 1.8 could not be made more compact.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 1/15/19, 11:37 PM, "LUG on behalf of Robert Baron via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    Mark, as I understand it the big lenses for compact mirrorless bodies are
    big because of the autofocus mechanical innards they require.  I would
    enjoy my new Nikon Z6 a whole lot more if I had a much smaller lens to put
    on it that would still autofocus and I hope and think that such will be
    available in the next little while.
    
    In the meantime in addition to the 24-70 f4 zoom that is a right nice 'kit'
    lens I bought the prime 50mm 1.8.  It is no pancake but at least it doesn't
    extend itself beyond all propriety and gives me a focal length that brings
    back memories of the fifties and HCB.
    
    On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:00 PM Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
    
    > I think I'm seeing both sides of the new lens sizes issue a little bit.
    > After years with the tight restraints of designing glass for the M system
    > Peter Kolb and others lens designers seem to be having a ball with the
    > generous lens mounts in the new mirrorless cameras giving them true room to
    > breathe.  They are way wider than Nikon F, And Canon etc. established from
    > the early SLR days though they didn’t have to worry about blocking a
    > viewfinder window.  Nikon is celebrating by coming out with a .95 lens soon
    > called a Noctilux I'd have thought that would be a Leica trademark. So they
    > are also having a ball with the huge new mounts.
    > In the past year or so I've re bought Nikon 1.8 primes in 35, 50, 85 focal
    > lengths and which are as if someone inflated them with a bicycle pump.
    > They are inflated and hollow feeling. The filter sizes are several sizes
    > larger than the 52mm standard size of the classic SLR's. They don't look
    > ill proportioned on the DSLRS they are designed for though and balance
    > perfectly and better than my old compact D glass for the most part. So even
    > on small old mounts lenses are designed way more generously than before.
    > All the elements have room to breathe.
    >
    > That said these huge zoom lenses made now to put on the front of the new
    > flat, compact mirrorless cameras I'm not sold on getting myself. Getting
    > into mirrorless I'd use Leica M glass and a Nikon Z lens would have to be
    > of near pancake proportions for me to bite. I think maybe one is so far.
    > I'm not going to mount an air to ground missile on the front of scaled down
    > compact cutting edge designed camera body.. Might just ruin the unobtrusive
    > feeling of the body design. Part of good lens design to me is to not lose
    > sight right in the beginning what the camera system is supposed to be all
    > about. Mirrorless to me seems to not be about metal munching monsters. But
    > compactness and flexibility. And video. And keeping up with the Joneses.
    >
    >
    >
    >
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    >
    > Mark William Rabiner
    > Photographer
    >
    > On 1/15/19, 6:30 PM, "LUG on behalf of John McMaster" <lug-bounces+mark=
    > rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:
    >
    >     I was commenting on the size and weight of the SL lenses
    >
    >     john
    >
    >     -----Original Message-----
    >
    >     I thought the discussion was about SL and M lenses.
    >
    >     Jim Handsfield
    >     jhandsfield at att.net
    >
    >     > On Jan 15, 2019, at 12:55 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk>
    > wrote:
    >     >
    >     > They are almost S lens size and weight, but only covering 35mm
    > format.....
    >
    >
    >
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