So I started to wonder why I was actually selling it. It’s still more awkward-feeling than other lenses I have owned, but one advantage is that it lets you close-focus more accurately, because its longer. It’s looks and ‘ugly duckling’ reputation started to grow on me, and also I got used to the long focus throw. I started to think that my v3 wasn’t so bad after all. Because of the way people wrote about this lens I wasn’t expecting much, but the images actually looked great! They were sharp and contrasty, and I loved the way that the 35mm focal length could get more into a frame, which really helped me tell a "story" with my pictures. In a good way! Online this lens is generally considered to be sub-par and soft wide-open, at least in comparison to the ASPH versions. In the mean time I used my v3 every day, and I was genuinely surprised. This was mostly because the v4 costs nearly twice as much so I needed the money. So I put the v3 up for sale, but I wanted a good deal. Also it has a pretty irresistible name (which is actually pretty unfounded): “The King of Bokeh”. What I actually wanted was the v4 as this is the smallest and lightest Leica 35mm. This might be superficial, but part of the Leica-charm is how beautiful, solid and slick everything is, which just makes you want to pick up the camera and shoot! So it’s actually pretty important.Īlso, the focus throw of the lens is weird, as it is much longer than that of other lenses with a focus tab (about 160 degrees in total) meaning you need to push the focus tab pretty high up (toward the top of the camera) if you want to close-focus, which felt awkward. Only the version 2 (v2) looses from the v3 in the looks-category, as it has a weird looking aperture-tab-thing. It just looked less cool than the old retro 50’s version 1 (v1), and not a slick as the version 4 (v4). Immediately, I didn’t like the look of the lens.