Leica 50mm f/ 2.8 Silver Elmarit M Manual Focus Lens (11823)
Details
- Availability:
- No longer available through SilverGelatin.net
- List Price:
- $1,300.00
- Average Customer Rating:
- 5.0 out of 5
- Manufacturer:
- Leica
Description
If compact dimensions and light weight are more important to you than high speed, then this classic universal lens is exactly right for you. The lens barrel can be collapsed into the camera body, making your LEICA M6 TTL extra slim and handy. The utilization of optical glasses with high indices of refraction and a new optical computation produce an outstanding overall performance.
Spotlight customer reviews
Superb, But Expensive, Collapsible 50mm Leica M-Mount Lens
[ Posted: 2006-12-24 ]
The cheapest lens currently offered by Leica for M-mount rangefinder camera users, the Leica 50mm f2.8 Elmar-M lens is the perfect lens for the rangefinder camera user who wants to travel with a collapsible, relatively lightweight lens. This chrome 50mm f2.8 Elmar-M lens will appeal primarily to those interested in a "retro" look to their Leica kit, using this lens along with their vintage chrome Leica M rangefinder cameras like the classic M3, M2 and M4. Optically, this lens performs better than the 1950s and 1960s versions of Leica's venerable 50mm f2 Summicron lens, thanks to the usage of some special glasses. Indeed, its optical performance has been rated as superb in a lens test conducted and published by Popular Photography a few years ago (One interesting observation I saw from this test is the fact that this lens doesn't perform superbly wide open as the current 50mmm f2 Summicron-M lens, but under practical, real-life conditions, users will not really notice any differences.) Otherwise, it has the same four element Tessar design that is optically indistinguishable from the earlier vintage 50mm f2.8 Elmar. If you are willing to pay the extra money, then I would recommend instead considering the purchase of a current version of the 50mm f2 Summicron-M lens.