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What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens

  
 
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p.2 #1 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


My two handed death grip will be holding the Sony 70-200GMii and the Voigtlander 50/1.0.


Aug 27, 2025 at 03:06 PM
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p.2 #2 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


That depends on the camera.

For the relatively new-to-me Minolta X-570, it's the nMD 35/1.8.
On the mono-converted rII, it's the 7Artisans 35/1.4 vIII.
On the UT modded rII, it's the ZM Biogon 35/2.
On the a6700, it's the Sony 70-200GII.
On the a1, it's the 300GM.
On the FX3, it's the Zony A-mount 24/2.
And on the Actus it's the Rodenstock 100/4.

So I guess it just depends on which camera I'm holding when I croak.



Aug 27, 2025 at 07:01 PM
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p.2 #3 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


300 GM for me, no question.






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Aug 27, 2025 at 08:20 PM
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p.2 #4 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Fujifilm 27/2.8


Aug 27, 2025 at 08:24 PM
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p.2 #5 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


I could be happy with just the 20-70. I have a great copy and since I shoot mostly landscapes while hiking, it’s a great lens for me.


Aug 27, 2025 at 08:40 PM
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p.2 #6 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Sony 35mm 1.4 GM


Aug 27, 2025 at 09:03 PM
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p.2 #7 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


300 GM.


Aug 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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p.2 #8 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


For years I would have said the Sony 200-600, but after I got the 400-800, the 200-600 hasn't been used more than hand full of times.

The 400-800 is the favorite.



Aug 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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p.2 #9 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


I think I have to go with the lens that just always delivers, time and again, with zero fuss: Loxia 85.

I'll never get rid of it.



Aug 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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p.2 #10 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Sony 35 f1.4 GM
Samyang 135 f1.8

These two but mostly the 35.



Aug 28, 2025 at 01:34 AM
 


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p.2 #11 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Voigtlander 1.5/75 nokton

There's nothing like it 😊



Aug 28, 2025 at 05:16 AM
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p.2 #12 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


I'm sure that I'd change my mind one day but I've had the Leica summicron-r 180/2.0 since the mid 1990s, bought it new, and still can't see myself parting with it. But it is getting heavier, or gravity is changing, I definitely can't be getting older... right.

Aside from that, I've not seen a better fast 50 than the Sony 50/1.2 and I certainly can't imagine ever parting with it.



Aug 28, 2025 at 06:28 AM
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p.2 #13 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


OK... I've narrowed it down to the GM 50mm f1.2, GM 28-70mm f2, GM 70-200mm f2.8 II and GM 300mm f2.8.

.... and the winner is: GM 50mm f1.2



Aug 28, 2025 at 06:48 AM
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p.2 #14 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


I went through this exercise once when I had to sell off most of my large format gear due to a lengthy medical crisis. The last lens I parted with was a dearly beloved Kodak 135mm Wide Field Ektar. What a fantastic lens. Fast forward 20+ years or so and I've finally found its digital sibling, Voigtlander 40mm f1.2 Nokton. If the time ever came again when I needed to divest myself of my gear, that will surely be the last lens to go.


Aug 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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p.2 #15 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


For me personally, it is the Voigtländer Nokton 21/1.4 aspherical and the Voigtländer Nokton 40/1.2 aspherical.


Aug 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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p.2 #16 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Sony 28-70 f2
Sony 50-150 f2

And if I could also hang one around my neck - 85mm f1.4 GM2



Aug 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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p.2 #17 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


the 35mm f1.4 GM for me..


Aug 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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p.2 #18 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Cold dead hands make it tough to shoot. I have been there when it is 5 degrees, they are stiff and sometimes I can't even tell if I hit the shutter button.


Aug 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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p.2 #19 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


nalax wrote:
My hands were cold and dead when I shot this last winter, Sony 20 is my favorite.



Is that IR? If so, no hot spot with the 20G?

Cheers,
Jim



Aug 28, 2025 at 01:25 PM
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p.2 #20 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


I have two hands, so the 50/1.2 GM and the 135 GM

Jim



Aug 28, 2025 at 01:26 PM
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