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Leica 50mm f/2.5 SUMMARIT-M, Standard Manual Focus Lens for M System, Black - USA

Brand: Leica
Category: Photography

List Price: ~~$1,500.00~~
Buy New: $1,195.00
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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

1 reviews
Sales Rank: 94642

Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9

MPN: 11644
EAN: 4022243116443
ASIN: B000YR3FVA

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Features:

•	All Summarit-M lenses are designed, manufactured and marked "Made in Germany"
•	Highest optical and mechanical performance with the classic Leica look and feel
•	Superb price/performance that reach new markets and customer segments
•	Compact lenses in the Leica tradition
•	Lenses include metal front cap, rear cap and cloth pouch

Accessories:

•	Leica 39E Series 8 Ultra Violet Filter with Black Mount for Leica M8 Lenses (13131)
•	Adorama Professional Lens Cleaning Kit
•	Sima CapKeeper 2 - Lens cap strap (pack of 3 )
•	Leica 39E Digital Ultra Violet (UV) / Infra Red (IR) Filter - Black Mount

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
The Summarit-M lenses are designed to offer traditional Leica optical and mechanical excellence while positioned at a price level below the current M ASPH lenses. The aim of these lenses is to bring classic Leica quality and performance to a broader market of users. The Summarit-M maximum aperture of f/2.5 and the concentration on classical and proven spherical lens designs leads to very compact, but high performance lenses with excellent quality expected from a Leica lens. The Summarit-M lenses will see the reemergence of traditional Leica elements. All letter and number engravings will be made using the traditional "Leitz-Norm" font as originally used by Leitz Wetzlar during the 1960's and the red button onthe lens mount will be true to the original color used on lenses produced since the introduction of the M mount through the 1970's.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Superb Budget 50mm Lens From Leica November 25, 2007
John Kwok (New York, NY USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Leica has introduced this marvelous little "retro" lens, the 50mm f2.5 Summarit-M lens which will remind long-time Leica M users of classic black 50mm f2 Summicron lenses manufactured at Leitz Canada and Leica Germany from the 1980s to mid 1990s, since, like them, it possesses a focusing tab. Performance-wise, it is almost as optically superb at f2.8 and f4 as the current 50mm Summicron-M lens with a collapsible lens hood (For the 50mm Summarit-M lens and the rest of the Summarit-M lens line, Leica has created separate detachable lens hoods, which do not come with the lens, but must be purchased separately.). Like current and previous 50mm Summicrons, this lens does accept 39mm filters. So it is definitely a most desirable lens for anyone interested in superb optical quality and a relatively inexpensive 50mm lens. Right? Maybe. If your objective is the best optical quality, then you'd be better off acquiring either the Leica 50mm f1.4 Summilux-M ASPH lens at a king's random, or the relatively new Zeiss ZM 50mm f2 Planar lens (Optically it out-performs my old 50mm f2 Summicron lens made back in the late 1960's at Leica's former Wetzlar, Germany plant. Elsewhere, online, I have read that the Zeiss Planar is slightly better wide open at f2 with respect to resolution and contrast than the current 50mm Summicron-M lens; it is currently available brand new to potential purchasers at a price that is more than half of a brand new 50mm Summicron-M, and almost exactly half that of a brand new 50mm Summarit-M.).