SD-body for use with M42 and Leica-R lenses

Thanks, helpful input! Was it the Pancolar 85mm 1.8? That is a legendary lens, which is getting very expensive nowadays.

You know, I do not remember it anymore.. I suspect it was ‘just’ the Contax Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm F1.4 MMG Made in West Germany though... on the Contax (I had a few in the OLD days including a Contax ND. I think the first FF digital ever. In that era, I was still making my daily bread with photography. So that lens was on it and as I remember it, it must have been that one.

I now have the SD1. Great camera. A bit on the slow side. And it sounds maybe a bit strange but I do not specifically like the SD 1 more than I did the SD10:-)

The wonders of nostalgia

why not get a nice SD15 (They are going at a far price lately) with a nice prime (30 mm art or 50 mm) and stay with the Ricoh with M lensadapter?

The SLR-lenses balance much better on an actual SLR compared to my Fuji and Ricoh. And I'm not that much of an autofocus-shooter, although the temptation of one art lens would be too much. I

Yeah, and I never use the autofocus on the 30 mm 1,4 art also. This lens feels as a true manual focus lens. Very, very nicely built! Like a Zeiss lens, really. And not that expensive (probably because it is a Apc lens and not ff, like the 35, wich is a monster!) and if you ever want to use AF, it is on it and it is even a fast and quiet one.

It is nice to have two totally different cameras.

It is, I have currently 3 that I use on a regular basis, and 2 others that I use less often but take out occasionally.

I know that as soon as I have some dough, I’ll be buying a Leica Q and keep the SD 1 with just the 70 mm and maybe a nice big zoom or so. Fabulous cameras both and so very different!

The Q is an awesome camera! For me, my Leica-dream would be the M Monochrome or, failing to find one that meets requirements, an M9 or M240. I already have a few compatible lenses, so I "only" need to buy the body

True! Very true. It would be a very nice set: a Leica M and a Sigma SD15 with a 30 or so. Yeah! One could live with that:-)