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Great Lens - as good as any Leica 50mm I used on film m3

Started Jul 8, 2018 | User reviews thread
Stesinou
Stesinou Contributing Member • Posts: 832
Re: Great Lens - as good as any Leica 50mm I used on film m3
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In fact, taken Leica 50mm, you should compare 35/2 to it.

I like 23/2 so much, my favorite 35mm-AOV lens.

I like 75-85 AOV for portrait, this is best done with 56/1.2 or it's poor man's alternative - manual 50mm to 58mm fast lenses from film SLR, adapted.

Having 35mm AOV lens and portrait AOV set of lenses already, I am trying to find, where 50/2 fits for me then.

Use it as the less costly substitute for 56/1.2 with quick AF? There are not quite equivalent, too different rendering. Also I have manual lenses in this AOV, for meditative portrait work.

50mm AOV, I don't use it much, 35mm AOV is my all-time preference for everyday. And if I need it, again I have three options:

  1. 35/1.4 which renders very nice but bulkier, and AF slower, 
  2. 35/2 which renders differently, is lightweight and AF is fast,
  3. manual old 50mm fast lens on focus reducer device (which I have already) so almost no crop (1.087 is effectively 1:1).

GAS tells me "look at this cool 50/2 gadget", but logic tells "but for what usage? portrait? get 56/1.2 then"

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