Buy Leica 50mm f/2.0 Summicron M Manual Focus Lens (11826)Leica 50mm f/2.0 Summicron M Manual Focus Lens (11826) Product Description:
- Front & Rear Lens Caps
- Soft Leather Lens Case
- Built-In Telescoping Lens Hood
- 3-Year Limited Warranty
- 3-Year Passport Warranty
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In the category of high speed standard lenses, this handy universal lens has a world-wide reputation for the highest optical performance. With outstanding imaging quality even at the closest focusing range. It is available in black anodized finish and in silver chrome finish. With a built-in sliding lens hood.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
If you still use a 50mm lens, this is may be the best ever
By Dom Miliano
Years ago, every 35mm camera was offered with a "normal" or 50mm lens. This focal length closely matches the diagonal of the 35mm film plane and was considered the best compromise for general photography. Not too short, not too long - just right.When you consider that many of the world's greatest photographs have been taken with a 50mm (and many of them on Leicas) you can see why this lens remains in the line. Another reason it's still being made and used by pros and serious fine art folks is that this lens is superb.I remember reading that Leica lens MTF formulas tend to favor contrast. Other brand lens formulas (no slight intended here) seem to lean more toward edge sharpness and I can't explain the science any more or why that's important. I could when I taught photography but that was years ago. Anyway, when I look at a slide under a good loupe made with a Japanese lens, it looks like a sharp picture of the thing. The same shot taken with a Leica lens tends to look like the real thing - dare I say, almost alive.My 50mm is a joy to use. While I do not favor photo contests, I do enter them on occasion. Of the last 4 prizes I have won, 3 were taken with Leicas and 2 were taken with my 50mm. It's really a great, sharp, contrasty lens. I think that it makes me a better photographer - I become more involved or creative or serious. I can't figure it out. All I know is that I like what I see and for me, that seems to be enough.As I mentioned in my f:2.0, 35mm Summicron review, Leica build quality is still as good as it gets. It's solid, smooth and probably will out live me. Assuming that film is still available when I'm older and grayer, I plan on using it for many more years. I use it on a beat up M4 and a Minolta hand held meter (a really good light meter). Sometimes I just load the camera up with Velvia 50 and shoot colors or blue sky and clouds just to see the colors pop on the light table. No, I don't sing the score from "Hair"...I feel sorry for all of the digital photographers who will never experience the joy of seeing a fine grain slide shot with a Leica lens. Sigh!Non-Leica people will be shocked by the high price. Long time Leica users will understand what kind of effort goes into each lens and know why it's not a few hundred bucks. Is this lens worth the price? Obviously, I think so, maybe you will too.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.The best 50mm lens today
By kkrome25
I have this lens, and from using many other lenses in this focal length, this is the sharpest edge-to-edge. The contrast is just right; not too much like with Canons and Nikons. The bokeh from this lens is textbook perfection.It's not as good (collectively) as the old 50mm Summicron-M Collapsible, the Canadian 35mm Summicron-M, or the Olympus 35SP's 42mm Zuiko lens, but this one is available new.
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