Leica today announces a new version of the 28mm Summicron-M in a matte back finish and featuring an integrated push-pull hood. Technically, the lens is largely unchanged from the original 2016 model which is still available in black or silver.
The new Leica Summicron-M 28 f/2 ASPH incorporates light green engravings to complement the “resilient and scratch-resistant” matte black coating. Leica says that the lens has been designed to complement the M10-P Reporter model but will blend in well with any other M-Camera.
“At its maximum aperture, the Summicron-M 28 mm f/2 ASPH delivers impressively rich contrast, differentiated reproduction of even the finest details, a soft and smooth bokeh and extremely high resolution. This is due to its recalculated optical design, which almost completely eliminates the astigmatic differences in the image field caused by the cover glass of the sensor to ensure excellent image quality from corner to corner in every picture.”
The Leica Summicron-M 28 f/2 ASPH is available now for £4,000, including VAT in the United Kingdom.
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I bought one! It arrived this afternoon and it’s lovely – a perfect match for the M11 – the green is very subtle, and the red dot is black. Definitely love at first sight
I am an insipid shade of green.
The Matte Black paint finish on this is the same paint as the M11
So it’ll be a grand companion for that – I think the green needs to be seen in real life!
best
Jono
Coincidentally, green is the colour of envy… do I want a 28mm Summicron? Probably. But I also want a 35mm APO-Summicron and can’t get one. A word with Herrn Daniel, if you please!
Hi Mike
I haven’t resisted the matt black summicron – as for the 35 APO it’s obviously hard to make!
best
Jono
Get thee behind me, Satan…
Hey, I wonder if Leica thought through their special edition M11 cameras. 😀
I suppose the baseplate will be limited to matching the battery choices for the original release. I am sure that their product management was on top of this.
I love the built in hood on Leica glass. I wonder why they do not do it more often?
I had to do a quick think about the colour of the Reporter. This one uses a different one of Johnny Cash’s Forty Shades of Green (a song written over 60 years ago in praise of my own fair land). The most attractive feature of this is the compact hood which looks a lot easier to use than the monstrous plastic hood on my 2010 version of the same lens. It so big that it plays havoc with the view through the rangefinder/viewfinder. I note, though, that the flat, or sightly concave, lens element at the front seems to be still there, even on the recomputed lens.
William
It’s a rather insipid green from what I can see in the photos. Not quite Irish…
For the longest time there were rumors about a Reporter limited-edition Summicron-M 28mm. I am guessing this is probably it…? I always envisioned a Reporter limited-edition lens to be green though, not black with green engravings… and the rumors also previously said that people who had bought the Reporter would get first pick… not so much from what it seems… anyway, it will probably sell out in a heartbeat….
There’s a typo, Mike in the bold headline above the press release, where the price is announced. It says f/2.8, instead of f/2.0. I don’t know if that’s something that you are able to amend.
Thanks for spotting this, Richard. Eagle eyes. And it just goes to show I can proofread until the cow’s come home and miss something obvious like that. Mind you, Leica Rumors called it a 29mm in an earlier versions of their story (now corrected). I had to do a double take and check up, even though I sort of realised there are no 29mm frame lines in the M…
“..I can proofread until the cow’s come home..”
Your diong this in porpoise, Mike, are’nt you..? “until the cow’s come home”..?
Your jist windign us ip!
Of course! I have never been caught out by apples predictive nonsense
I plead guilty to faulty proofreading as well, Mike. I edited a flyer for a friend this week and failed to notice that her bespoke stationary had stopped moving.
$4,495 in the US which is actually $100 cheaper than the Made in Portugal version and $600 cheaper than the regular version. I currently use the Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f/2 II which at $900 is 5 times cheaper than the Summicron-M and (in my opinion) optically better than Summicron-M v1 and the Elmarit-M. I have no experience with v2 (this one) of the Summicron-M.