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I agree on the Summarits, beautiful rendering. I have the 35 and 90 and wouldn't trade either of them.Sorry to hear that you need the EVF as the Monochrom is a treat to use.
I've run the gauntlet of lenses and discovered that my tastes changed over the last few years. I went from loving 35mm to loving 75mm! I have two 35mm and 3 50mm lenses at the moment and really enjoy each of them. I found that I'm using the 35mm at f/8 for street work. The MS Optical 35mm therefore gets a fair amount of use as its minimum aperture is 3.5 and it's barely larger than a lens cap! The lens cost 5 times less than the Summilux... I also have the 50mm Summilux and the 50mm Summarit. I took the Summarit on a trip over the holidays and it did not disappoint. I like its size and weight. And how it renders.
I've also owned the 75mm Summarit but sold it in favor of the Summicron, solely due to the Summicron's closer focusing distance. I love the way the Summarit rendered, and that it was spot on with focusing. But it barely provided a tighter crop the 50mm Summilux due to its longer minimum focusing distance.
I can't imagine finding a lens that I wouldn't like on the Monochrom though.
Here are some shots from the holidays with the Summarit 50mm.
hmm, how does one obtain elective cataract surgery?bad eyes are the bane of the rangefinder; many have given it up for that reason, my self included.
then i followed fotografz lead and had cataract surgery, now i'm goood to go.
To paraphrase The Beatles...hmm, how does one obtain elective cataract surgery?
Standing in a field and flicking through the frame lines, I hope the preview lever is restored on the M.240-P , and the differences between lenses does not seem much; but walk around for a week with a 28mm then switch to a 35mm: then you will be backing into walls trying to get the perspective you pre-visualized based on the 28mm experience.Are the 35mm and the 28mm a bit too close? Would a 24mm (or even a 21mm) be more appropriate than the 28mm? Or, is 35mm too close to 50mm?
If you've used B&W before and enjoyed the qualities of grain and tone then I don't think you need a super fast lens, the MM is fine with the ISO turned up to 5000, it looks like film. You should go with the lenses that match the pictures in your head, the style of image you want to make. But if super narrow DOF isn't it (and which presents its own problems of focusing in dark places with people moving about), then slower lenses are both smaller and cheaper.Here is my thoughts:
Leica Monochrom M camera and spare battery
Leica Summicron-M 28mm f/2.0 Lens
Leica 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH
Leica 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux-M
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