LEICA APO SUMMICRON-SL 35mm ASPH.
Review and Photo example of the Apo Summicron SL 35mm with a digital camera.
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Gallery
- Photo example from LEICA T
Review
The Apo Summicron SL 35mm was the only 35mm with an Apo Summicron until the release of the M mount Apo Summicron with a focal length of 35 mm.
I bought it at a map shop for a reasonable price, but since I had sold my LEICA SL, I wasn’t able to use it much. I had the luxury of using it attached to my LEICA T, but I felt that a lens larger than the SUMMILUX TL had superior resolution and descriptive power.
It more than satisfies the standards required of modern lenses, such as front and rear blur, no loss of contrast when backlit, and no ghosting, and is a lens that can be used with the LEICA SL2, which has over 40 million pixels, to your satisfaction. I think that.
The lens hood attached to the lens attached to the LEICA T was the Haoge 67mm Square Metal Screw-in Mount Lens Hood (link is an Amazon affiliate link). The included hood was too large and inconvenient to carry, so I used this one. The mounting position of this hood can be adjusted after screwing it in, making it suitable for modern lenses whose lens barrels do not rotate when focusing.
As you can see in the comparison photo, the SUMMICRON SL is huge, and while it can’t be helped since the policy is to make all lens barrels with the same barrel, the SUMMICRON 90 or 28 is the standard, but it’s unnecessarily big. I feel like it. In fact, with the APO removed, the overall length of SUMMICRON SL35mm is about 20mm shorter.
It feels better to say clearly that costs are reduced by standardizing parts than to make useless excuses, but it’s a bit petty for a lens that sells for more than five times the price of lenses with the same specs from other companies, and the lens line The company’s logic is that it would be better to build a lens at a low price and sell it, but as a purchasing user, I would like the manufacturer to provide a design that is appropriate for the lens specs. I haven’t continued purchasing SL lenses since I’ve moved to the digital medium version, but I sometimes think it would be nice to have all the lenses and be able to use them depending on my mood that day.
On April 24, 2021, the M-type APO SUMMICRON 35mm was released, and the price is around 1.3 million yen. In comparison, you can buy a used lens for around 400,000 yen, so if you can ignore the size of the lens as mentioned earlier, you can get a high-performance lens at a low price and it feels like a good deal.
Specification
- LEICA SL APO SUMMICRON Lens Variations
| Lens name | APO-SUMMICRON | APO-SUMMICRON | APO-SUMMICRON | APO-SUMMICRON | APO-SUMMICRON |
| Focal length(mm) | 28 (11183) | 35 (11184) | 50 (11185) | 75 (11178) | 90 (11179) |
| Max aperture | 2 | ← | ← | ← | ← |
| Min aperture | 22 | ← | ← | ← | ← |
| Lens Construction | 10群13枚 | 11群13枚 | 10群12枚 | 9群11枚 | 9群11枚 |
| Min distance(m) | 0.24 | 0.27 | 0.35 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| Lens lenght(mm) | 102 | ← | ← | ← | ← |
| Lens diameter(mm) | 73 | ← | ← | ← | ← |
| Filter Size(mm) | E67(67mm) | ← | ← | ← | ← |
| Weight(g) (Only lens) | 700 | 750 | 740 | 720 | 700 |
| Release date | 2021.2 | 2019.4 | 2019.8 | 2018.2 | 2018.2 |
| Price(Jp-Yen) | 660,000- | 630,000− | 610,000- | 580,000- | 640,000- |
- Comparison of Leica 35mm lenses
| Lens name | APO-SUMMICRON-SL(11184) | SUMMICRON-SL(11192) | SUMMICRON-R(I) | SUMMICRON-R(II) |
| Focal length(mm) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Max aperture | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Min aperture | 22 | ← | 16 | ← |
| Lens Construction | 11群13枚 | 9群11枚 | 6群9枚 | 6群6枚 |
| Min distance(m) | 0.27 | 0.24 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Lens length(mm) | 102 | 83 | 57.5 | 46 |
| Lens diameter(mm) | 73 | 74.5 | 66 | 66 |
| Filter Size(mm) | E67(67mm) | ← | シリーズ7(E48) | E55 |
| Weight(g) (Only lens) | 750 | 402 | 508 | 430 |
| Release date | 2019.4 | 2023.3 | 1970 | 1976 |
| Price(Jp-Yen) | 630,000- | 300,000− | – | – |
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Update history
- 2024.03.06
- 2023.08.16
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