What is a Summilux lens?

What is a Summilux lens?

The name Summilux is used by Leica and Panasonic Lumix to designate camera lenses that have a maximum aperture of f/1.4. The lens has been in production since 1959 and carries on to the present day.

What is the difference between summicron and Summilux?

If you look at the two results side by side, the Summilux is warmer and has more yellow than the Summicron. The Summicron is a much whiter lens. The difference is subtle, but if you look at her face, you can see the Summilux has more sharpness than the Summicron.

What does ASPH mean on a Leica lens?

Aspherical Lens
ASPH is an abbreviation of Aspherical Lens and is used by the manufacturer, Leica to denote lenses that contain an aspherical lens element.

What does elmarit mean?

ELMARIT (f/2.8) was derived from its sibling, the ELMAR. SUMMICRON (f/2) had the first part of its name (Summi) taken from the Summar lenses of old. The latter part, cron, refers to the fact that the lenses originally used Crown glass (which was produced by a company Leitz acquired).

What does Vario Elmarit mean?

In Leica language, a ‘Vario’ lens is a zoom. So an f/2.8-f/4 zoom will be a ‘Vario-Elmarit’, and a f/3.5-5.6 zoom would be a ‘Super-Vario-Elmar’ (‘Super’ before ‘Vario’, not ‘Elmar’ in this instance). If Leica ever made an f/2-2.8 standard zoom (we can only dream), it would be a ‘Vario-Summicron’.

Why Leica lenses are so small?

The Leica M lenses are still smaller because of the lack of anything more than glass and a focusing mount in the lens, and because Leica expends a huge amount of effort in designing them to image well on both film and digital bodies (they still produce both kinds of cameras) while remaining compact, including supplying …

Can you use Leica lenses on Canon?

Leica M lenses can fit to most ‘mirrorless’ interchangeable lens cameras, such as the Sony or Fuji models, with a suitable adaptor. For a Canon 5D you can fit most Leica R lenses with an adaptor.

What is a Leica ROM lens?

Leica R lenses are 35mm manual focus lenses that fit on Leica R SLR bodies. The cam looks like a sloped and curved chrome bar located in between the lens mount and the rear element of glass. It is not recommended to put these lenses on R8 or R9 cameras because it can damage the cameras ROM contacts.

What does summicron mean?

The name Summicron is used by Leica to designate camera lenses that have a maximum aperture of f/2 after 1953 and to present day.

Are Lumix lenses made by Leica?

Lumix is Panasonic’s brand of digital cameras, ranging from pocket point-and-shoot models to digital SLRs. Some Lumix models are branded with Leica lenses (e.g. Nocticron or Elmarit lenses), although Leica does not manufacture the lenses.

What kind of lens is Leica Summilux 50mm?

Optical Diagram of Leica Summilux-R 50mm f/1.4 II lens. The name Summilux is used by Leica and Panasonic Lumix to designate camera lenses that have a maximum aperture of f/1.4. The lens has been in production since 1959 and carries on to the present day.

What kind of photography do Summilux lenses do?

Summilux lenses are designed for low-light photography.

When was the first 50 mm Summilux lens made?

The first Summilux was the 50 mm of 1959, followed by a new 50 mm Summilux design in 1961, whose optics remained unchanged until replaced by the 50 mm Summilux-M ASPH of 2004. The Summilux lenses have a maximum f-number of f/1.4 or f/1.5.