Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/21
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Get the Zeiss 50/2 Planar
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:17 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <
leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks --
>
> My trusty $100 Canon Serenar has picked up a slight wobble, I'm not sure
> if this is a portent of evil to come or if I just never noticed it before
> --
> but the front element section will move around a bit if you wiggle it
> ("stop wiggling it!" advice I thank you for in advance).
>
> I'm thinking of preemptively replacing it. I was going to go for a
> Voigtlander 1.5, which seem to be about $900 in Leica M mount, but noticed
> that the Nokton 1.1 was going for about $650 -- any thoughts on whether the
> nokton would work as my only 50 or is it too big for every day use?
>
> Suggestions of other 50's you have lying around in drawers and want to get
> rid of also taken.
>
> Priorities are:
>
> 1) no slower than f2
> 2) focusing closer than 3 feet (which means any screwmount 50 is in,
> though I'd prefer an M mount that I could focus closer without having to
> resort to the penny-shim trick.)
>
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