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Available as soon as it is announced, the new Leica SUPER-ELMAR-M 1:3.8 / 18mm ASPH lens is officialized today by the manufacturer from Solms and it completes Leica’s range of wide angle lenses. To make a full use of it, you’ll also have to buy its dedicated viewfinder to ensure a range of 18mm, that the original telemetric viewfinder cannot cover.
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The viewfinder is equipped with a parallax marker for short distances inferior to 2 meters, and with a marker adapted to framing with a digital Leica M such as the M8, unique example for now, as the latter changes the nominal lens focal of x1.3 compared to the standard 35mm. As a matter of fact, coupled with an M8, this 18mm will become a 24mm F/1.8.
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Everyone knows the standards of excellence of Leica’s optical range, and this aspherical wide angle lens should not break with this tradition. Built with 8 lenses distributed in 7 groups and called "ASPH" for "aspherical", this SUPER-ELMAR 18mm F/3.8 would ensure, according to Leica, pictures without noticeable distortion, which would be an exploit for a lens that covers such a large field, but also without vignette. Thanks to its "modest" maximum aperture of F/3.8 and its very short focal length, it can produce a depth of field from 1.2 meter to the infinite as soon as it is in full aperture!
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This very wide angle Leica Super-Elmar 18mm in M mount is really appealing: we’d all be happy to see it on our good old M6TTL, M7 or brand new M8.2, however its price is directly related to its promises: the lens alone costs 2 350 Euros VAT incl. and the 18mm viewfinder (without which this lens can hardly be used) costs an additional 659 Euros VAT incl. – that makes a total of 3 009 Euros VAT incl.
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Main features
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- 18mm
- Maximum aperture: F/3.8
- Aspherical lens
- Depth of field at F/3.8: 1.2m to the infinite
- Lens price: 2 350 Euros VAT incl.
- 18mm Viewfinder price: 659 Euros VAT incl.
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Leica also announced today a new very appealing flash, for the Leica M and R systems, the particularity of which is to offer a dual source of light: the Leica SF58.
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