I see a bit of dust, dirt and crud but not really any haze. The lens I have looks a bit dirty inside when looking through the glass. Here is a shot at f/2 from my Summarit and Monochrom. I think I am going to like this little guy. When I pulled them up on my display I was shocked! Expecting to see super fuzzy soft low contrast images wide open I was instead seeing images that were pretty damn sharp, had medium contrast and a Bokeh I could describe as “unique” with some swirl and pleasing attributes. I attached it to my Leica Monochrom and took some test snaps. When my 1951 arrived I was pleased with the small size, hefty build and chrome classic look.

There were a total of just under 75,000 Leica Summarit 1.5 lenses made and I always see them for sale on buy/sell forums or sites such as KEH.com. This lens started production in 1939 and was made through 1957 so there are many copies out there from super old to just really old. This copy was made in 19 of them were made that year.

When I thought about it more I knew that this lens may be just about perfect for shooting B&W due to the lower contrast and “glow” it usually has in images I see.Īfter deciding to try one I recently had the opportunity to acquire an old stiff focusing 50 Summarit 1.5 lens. But at the same time, it had a unique look.almost like the lens was painting the pixels on to the memory card from the sensor. Every time I have seen samples they were crazy soft and without any sharpness to be seen along with almost NO contrast.

The Leica 50 Summarit has had a weird reputation as an oddball “crazy bokeh” super soft lens and for years I held off on buying one for that very reason. More Classic Lenses: Leica 50 1.5 Summarit & the Canon 50 1.2 LTMġst up, the classic but unique Leica 50 1.5 Summarit

Flickr 50mm 1.2