Hello,thanks for your input over on the other forum.
Would you be able to scrape by with "only" the Cron 28 and the Elmarit M 90? I can get the latter in silver chrome for a not-indecent amount of money,and the cron seems in every way a perfectly good lens for my use (street,people,landscapes,etc). The 90 would be used for much of the same,but when I want a tighter composition.
Should I expect to encounter any difficulties finding a "perfect" 28? Coming from canon,copy variatiion has been an issue with a few of their more expensive short primes,and one zoom..
As for my third lens,if forced to choose,probably the CV nokton 50 for wide open use. The noctilux is so far out of my league,its not even taken into consideration.
Double Negative wrote:
Assume you can pick three Leica lenses to form your core set of lenses. Which three would you choose - and why?
My choices for a three-lens set?
Summicron-M 28mm f/2 ASPH
Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH
Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8
All have the same basic diameter and are quite compact. All have 46mm filter threads, making filter sharing easy. All are at the top of their game and work equally well on film or digital bodies and do not require an external VF. 6-bit coded, of course.
I'd add the Tele-Elmar-M 135mm f/4 or the new Super-Elmar-M 21mm f/3.4 ASPH on the ends as an optional fourth/fifth as they still meet all of the criteria above (save for the external VF on the Super-Elmar-M). Most of these lenses also have a built-in, slide-out lens hood (the 50, 90 and 135) which is icing on the cake.