Customers Reviews
2007-11-25
Superb Budget 50mm Lens From Leica
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.).
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