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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.