LEICA SUMMILUX M 50mm F1.4 1st.

The nickname of a white lady

A review and Photo example of the LEICA SUMMILUX-M 50mm F1.4 1st.

Gallery

The example photo was taken using a LEICA M6 +KODAK E100VS +NIKON COOLSCAN-V

Review

Usage
Overview
Comparison

1．Usage

he encounter with the first SUMMILUX M 50mm was a camera shop in Kyoto on a traveling destination where Leica M6 and KODAK DSC SLR Pro/N had a little mold mark on the middle ball, but Helicoid is smooth and focus. I felt that I didn’t feel like it wasn’t, so I bought it because I fell in love with the exterior.

When used with a digital SLR in Kyoto at night, I felt the advantage of the rangefinder camera in the overwhelming ease of focus.

Regarding the image, you can enjoy a soft depiction even in digital, but it is suitable to enjoy it with a film from the age of the lens. Watching a slide taken with a good colored reversal film with a light box or a slide projector will give you a very good color.

It may be because the lens is tired, but there is no sense of resolution like a modern lens, but the soft depiction is very preferable. The shortest shooting distance is 1m, less than 50mm of SLR cameras, but it is fun to shoot with this restriction in mind.

At the time of the purchase, it was much cheaper than before, and it was a lens with mold remaining, so I could buy it in the first half of 100,000 yen. This is also a matter of selling 50mm left, but I sold it, but I wanted to keep it at hand.

2．Overview

The first SUMMILUX M 50mm was a bright standard lens made from 1958 to 1960, and the classification of the lens depends on the person, but here, following the notation of the Leica Wiki, the silver is the second generation, the second generation, the hood is incredible. Is divided into the third generation and the aspherical surface as the fourth generation.

The first SUMMILUX cannot be officially modified to add a 6 -bit code for lens recognition used in digital M -type Leica because the mounting shape is old.
The filter diameter is 43mm, and a general screw diameter filter can be attached, but the Leica and UN are released, and the E43 thin filter that does not cut the screw on the front looks great.

The number of squeezed feathers is 16.

Lens food can be used with Xooim (12521) and 12586.
XOOIM (12521) is crepe processed on the hood surface with a wrapper -shaped hood, and the name 12521 is a separate notation of Xooim.
12586 is a hood with slits and is often distributed with the second generation SUMMILUX, but it can be attached to the first SUMMILUX.

3．Comparion

The first SUMMILUX of the silver lens barrel has a small difference in design, but the low -letting part of the focus ring, the dimple pattern at the base of the lens, has the beauty reminiscent of crafts. In contrast, the seizure of the black lens barrel, which is the successor lens, has the impression of a rugged industrial product.

Until the second generation, the hood is separated, the lens food is incorporated from the third generation, and the shortest shooting distance is reduced to 0.7m. The fourth generation adopts an aspherical lens, and the lens configuration changes greatly.

When compared with a dark -to -stop squeezed aperture due to the same focal length, each of the SUMMILUX is slightly larger and a little heavier than SUMMICRON.
A compact rangefinder camera lens is not so much different, so it is more versatile to select bright zumilks. If you select SUMMILUX for 50mm and select SUMMILUX for 35mm, you need to be prepared to be about twice as expensive than SUMMICRON 50mm+35mm.

Specification and Competitor

Items	1st SUMMILUX	3rd SUMMILUX	SUMMILUX ASPH.	SUMMICRON IV
Local length(mm)	50	←	←	←
Max aperture	1.4	←	←	←
Min aperture	16	←	←	22
Leaf blade	12	12	9	8
Lens Construction	7elements in 5group	←	8elements in 5group	6elements in 4group
Min distance(m)	1.0	0.7	0.7	←
Lens length(mm)	52	55	52.5	43.5
Lens Max diameter(mm)	53	50	53.5	53
Filter Size(mm)	E43	E46	E46	E39
Lens hood	XOOIM（12521） 12586	Include	←	←
Aspherical lens	–	–	Use	–
Weight(g)	360	380(Silver,Titan) 275(Black)	460(Chrome) 335(Black)	335(Silver,Titan) 240(Black)
Production numbers	19,600 *	18,132 *	–
Release date	1958	1992	2006	1979