![]() ![]() Leica made about 400,000 of them, averaging 1,000 of them every month during its most popular period from 1929 through 1957. It was extremely poplar and Leica's most popular lens ever. This was the world's most advanced 50mm lens in the beginning. The Germans invented lens coating as a military secret during WW II. The optics remained the same for all these decades, with uncoated glass at the beginning and coating added after WW II. It came in many mechanical variations, including versions for the earliest fixed-lens cameras, and in screw and bayonet mounts. The original LEICA f/3.5 50mm ELMAR was made for decades. These lenses were permanently attached to the earliest Leicas. It has 5 elements in 3 groups.Ī few months later its design was changed slightly, still with 5 elements and 3 groups, and its name was changed to Elmax. On the CL and the M5, the retraction must be limited to 9.5mm, which Leica suggests doing by wrapping the right sized piece of Dymo label maker tape around the barrel.īe careful to extend the lens before use, otherwise you can waste pictures.ġ924-1925: Leitz Anastigmat and Leitz Elmax 5cm f/3.5 It is designed to collapse on all cameras there is no restriction on the M9. Of course it also works perfectly on every other LEICA M camera made since 1954. It is a superb lens for use in daylight, or on a tripod in any light. This tiny ELMAR-M works just fine on today's latest cameras, like the M9 and M7. In fact, this lens is so small that if you're reading this page on an iPod or iPhone, the images are still a little bit bigger than the actual lens. Printing the images only life-sized would be too small to print. If you demand top optical performance, the current LEICA SUMMICRON-M 50mm f/2 is far superior (by LEICA standards), takes the same tiny 39mm filters, and weighs only 75g (2.7 oz.) more.Įvery image here of this tiny little lens has been enlarged. Of course the faster and wider LEITZ SUMMICRON 40mm f/2 is the smallest and lightest LEICA M lens made, at 126g, but few LEICA M cameras have 40mm framelines. In black, it is the lightest 50mm lens ever made for LEICA M. Its advantage over faster lenses is its smaller size, less weight, and being collapsible for carrying while mounted to a camera in a big pocket. This new version is called the ELMAR-M, while the classic version is simply called the ELMAR f/2.8. ![]() This collapsible LEICA ELMAR-M 50mm f/2.8 is a remake of the original collapsible LEICA ELMAR 50mm f/2.8 of 1957-1974. Buy from Adorama, Amazon, Ritz, B&H, Calumet and J&R. ![]()
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