Characterized by its sleek, unobtrusive profile, the Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH. Lens is a compact optic that is particularly well-suited for street photography applications. Beyond its svelte stature, this wide-angle prime also features an eight-element, six-group optical design that contains one aspherical element to minimize spherical aberrations and distortions for clean, sharp image quality throughout the aperture and focusing ranges. Additionally, for intuitive handling and use, the manual focus design lends precise control while shooting, and its short, just over 1" in length, profile barely protrudes into the viewfinder field of M cameras for a clearer, uncluttered perspective while composing images.
- Full-Frame | f/2.8 to f/22
- One Aspherical Element
- Manual Focus Design
- Minimum Focus Distance: 2.3'
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Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH. Overview
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Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH. Reviews
Companion of the art
The lens with which I first took a photograph with my M11, a return to decades of M photography after a long hiatus. Possibly the most “Leica-like” for its size, responsiveness, and fluid precision among the lenses chosen for this new kit (28, 35, 50, 90), the Elmarit 2.8 presented three qualities at once - radical edge to edge sharpness and an inexhaustibly supple spectrum of contrast, with awesome rendering of colors. I had just stepped out for a test snap on a rainy later afternoon, to survey an expanse I know pretty well, of extensive descending lawn bordered by tall sheltering trees, whose interest heretofore had lain in exercise with my dog - when the lens calmly retrieved a sight of layered depth and beauty, so incisively as to define “knowing,” the generations all in focus. This pays for everything.
Unsurpassed quality
So far, I have used this lens on my Leica M11-P and Leica SL2, but I also want to use it with an adapter on my Canon R5. Like the 35mm Summilux f/1.4, I have nothing bad to say about this lens at all. I love setting it to f/11, and dialing the infinity marker (parfocal) to give perfect focus for everything from seven feet to infinity in tack-sharp focus. It's very unobtrusive, but in a class by itself. For Leica, this is not expensive, but their optical quality is unsurpassed. Die Beste!
