zhangyue wrote: Fully understand your preference with Zeiss. Since lens choice is very personal, please also take my opinion about particular lens with a grain of salts.
Well, you know how it is; narrowing down to two choices like Lux-R 80 and Zeiss 1.4/85 and being uncertain about the final choice means only one thing; getting both lenses, which I plan to do.
I seem to follow similar idea mentioned recently about getting glass and keeping it forever. Interestingly, it matches my other hobbies with no regrets. I feel that a decade from now lenses with aperture rings will be considered rarities and only well made (metal/glass) survivors will be sold/available from, say some ex-UK Asian colonies, for a small fortune.