For fun - the Leica" MAT"E (24-50-75 TE) - would you buy?

[ChipNovaMac]

The Tri Elmar is dead (28-35-50). It was a great combo for film shooters, maybe not wide enough for those that went with the Leica M8. In some ways my thoughts about a Leica Tri Elmar with the focal lengths of 24-50-75 could hit a cord with both film and digital shooters.

For us old film shooters the 24-50-75 (or 90) was the perfect 3 lens combo to go shooting with. With the 1.33x FOV factor a 24-50-75 lens becomes a 32-67-100 FOV. In either format it becomes the perfect storm in FOV IMO. And for those of us that still carry a film M body - it reduces what we need to carry around.

I can see myself carrying the "MATE", a 35/2 or 35/1.2 and the CV 15 along with my M6 and M8 bodies....

[arbib]

Not an M8 owner....But...
If I had the finances mind you, I would like a M8 with a 24-50-75 f/2.8 constant..
with proper VF frames for each FL.

I have a 28-75 f/2.8 on my DSLR (44-120 FOV)...Pretty close. I did look for a 24-75 f/2.8 but no one had one with a constant f/stop...I believe it was a 24-70 f/2.8-4..

But, I would buy one as an all around walk about lens for an M8. or may be a 22-40-75 (28-52-100)

This range is very versitle for many photo ops indeed.

[saxshooter]

constant 2.8? I am guessing it would be so huge that it would significantly block the VF and RF windows, making composing and focusing pretty difficult

[Ken Ford]

I'd buy one if I won the lottery.