LEICA M 0.8 LENSES

Sep 21 2016

For over 60 years, the Leica M full frame lenses have captured unique and iconic images around the world.

LEICA has manufactured high quality cinema and still photographic lenses. Recently SUMMILUX-C PRIME LENS (CW Sonderoptic) a lightweight, prime lens set for high resolution cameras won Oscar award for technical achievement.

CW Sonderoptic, sister company to Leica Camera announced the new Leica M 0.8 lenses, which brings the iconic look and character of Leica’s legendary M glass.

Designed for full frame (24x36mm) sensors and film stocks, the M 0.8 lenses will cover larger sensors like RED’s Dragon 8K VistaVision, Sony a7 series and the Leica SL.

The new M 0.8 gear rings are custom-made for each focal length, fitted and calibrated to match the rest of the lens housing.

The best thing about these Lenses is weighing only 320g to 700g which will be very useful during handheld, drone operation.

CW selected 5 lenses for this series, choosing the fastest in each focal length. The lenses will be available individually or as a set and include:

21mm f/1.4
24mm f/1.4
28mm f/1.4
35mm f/1.4
50mm f/0.95 Noctilux

The M 0.8 lenses will have existing Leica M mount, which is necessary to maintain their compact size. RED’s DSMC and DSMC2 designs allow the use of their Leica M Mount on all of their cameras with interchangeable mounts, including Scarlet, Epic, Weapon 6K, Weapon 8K VV and Helium 8K.

Adapters are also widely available for Sony E and FZ mount cameras, including the Sony a7 series, FS5, FS7, F5 and F55.

Leica claims that these lenses are characterized with image output of creamy skin tones, rich color rendition, shallow depth of field, vintage flares and smooth bokeh.