75mm f/1.4 Summilux Photos

There are some amazing photos in this thread. Your portraits are really nice Dirk, well done.

Perhaps it is not entirely ok to mention it in this forum, I don't know (but I checked the classifieds here first) but a 75 type 2 recently popped up over at the other big Leica forum. It's in the US.
 
philipus said:
There are some amazing photos in this thread. Your portraits are really nice Dirk, well done.

Perhaps it is not entirely ok to mention it in this forum, I don't know (but I checked the classifieds here first) but a 75 type 2 recently popped up over at the other big Leica forum. It's in the US.
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Thanks :D

And I find this entirely appropriate, to hint for a deal on one of these puppies. In my opinion, everybody should have one + it's hard to come by a good deal these days :-(
 
menos said:
it's hard to come by a good deal these days :-(
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However on the upside, the 75 Lux has still yet to go the way of the Noctilux - prices on the 75 are creeping up in the UK, whereas the Nocti has doubled in the past couple of years - now around £4500 in the UK for a decent copy - you can bag a good Lux for half that.

If you are in the market for one and find one you can afford I say go for it - when I bought mine I wasn’t sure it was a keeper, but as the dealer said 'you won't lose money on it'. So far he's right - though currently it's not going anywhere!
 
There are lenses and there are masterpieces

Using the lux 75 on the full frame M9 is like going into a trance to me

some results -> (i "see better" with my left eye hence the DSLR style shot)

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I know there are three versions of this lens, or 2,5 depending on how one counts.

E. Puts reports that the 1st (clip-on hood) version weighs 490g, that the 2nd (pull-out hood) version weighs a whole lot more, 600g, and that the 3d (Anniversary edition) version weighs 560g. They're all optically identical as I understand it.

If one wants as light a kit as possible, is there anything that speaks against the first version, apart from the clip-on hood (if that's a drawback)?
 
philipus said:
If one wants as light a kit as possible, is there anything that speaks against the first version, apart from the clip-on hood (if that's a drawback)?
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philipus, I think the first one close-focuses to 0.9 or 1 meter, while the later ones are 0.7. Otherwise no difference.
 
MikeL said:
philipus, I think the first one close-focuses to 0.9 or 1 meter, while the later ones are 0.7. Otherwise no difference.
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Thanks Mike. Ok that's very useful to know. Can be quite a limitation. I have a pre-asph 50 summilux with 1m closest focusing distance and much prefer the 0,7m of the asph. Granted perhaps one would use the 75 in different settings at longer distances. Still i think i would use it indoors for close-up portraits so the first version might not be what I want, even though it is much lighter.

Hmmm tricky.
 
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