All time favourite lens ?

[Anscojohn]

a 100 mm 2.8 Meyer-Görlitz 2.8 Orestor, in Praktica screw mount, with a click stop diaphram, shot at f/4.0 for portraits. Really small, light, and plenty sharp enough.

 

[cmo]

A 2nd generation M-Summicron 2/35 is the lens I use for 60-70% of my photos.

 

[januaryman]

How can anyone pick just one favorite? I have too many. but love almost all of them.

Nonetheless, I'm tempted to say it's my Canon 35/2.0 LTM because it is so sharp and classic in contract and soft oof, but my partiality might be because it took me so long to find a decent one that I could afford.

 

[ninjarider]

Carl Zeiss Planar 50/1.7 for Contax.

 

[Paul Jenkin]

Difficult choice but, right now, it's my FD 24mm/f2.0 which seems to handle just about any situation with ease and little, if any, distortion.

 

[cmo]

How can anyone pick just one favorite? I have too many. but love almost all of them.

Nonetheless, I'm tempted to say it's my Canon 35/2.0 LTM because it is so sharp and classic in contract and soft oof, but my partiality might be because it took me so long to find a decent one that I could afford.

I have got one, too, it's pretty close to my favourite and often called "the japanese Summicron". If it is so difficult to find an affordable one I will put it into the classifieds section here, together with my Canon VT deluxe and a 1.5/50 Zeiss Sonnar in LTM - I simply never use them, owning a 35 and 50 M-Summicron.

 

[keithwms]

Have you got a favourite lens ? If so, what are the reasons behind this ?

My favourite lens is the last one that I used. At last count I had ~20 favourites.

 

[darinwc]

Difficult choice but, right now, it's my FD 24mm/f2.0 which seems to handle just about any situation with ease and little, if any, distortion.

I'm with you, Paul. i have the 24mm f2 and I love this lens. The focal length is just perfect for the way I see, and it doesn't cause over-the-top distortions like wider lenses do.

For the record, I have the f2.8 model as well and I am equally pleased with it.

 

[nsurit]

Probably the one I have on my camera when I need it, however the one that is always in the kit and usually mounted on a body is the Olympus Zuiko 85mm f2. Not a lens, but I usually have a set of extension tubes in the kit to expand the possibilities of any lens. Bill Barber

 

[sangetsu]

Out of a room full of lenses by several different makers, my all-time favorite is the Olympus OM Zuiko 90/2.0 macro. My next favorite it a old Summitar 50/2, which is more or less permanently mounted to my Leica.