This Leica M 28mm f/2.8 Asph MF lens is super sharp, excellent contrast and color, light weight, and easy to focus with the small lens hood. This lens will exceed your expectations for landscape, travel, photojournalism and street photography. This lens is razor sharp from f/2.8 and gets even better down to f/8. Even at f/11 to f/16 this lens does excellent. I have found there is no issue with flare, coma, no visible distortion and very minimal vignetting. It is almost as good at the Leica M 28mm f/2.0 Summicron but at half the price. If you find your needing a wide angle for the aforementioned types of photography, this lens will not disappoint you in the least.
This is true Leica product - compact, sharp and well built. 28 mm makes it compatible with the viewfinder lines on M9, compact size makes it perfect travel companion, and optical characteristics leave no upside potential for other comparable lenses. And 2.8 is more than enough for digital m9. Highly recommended if you look for a wide angle addition to your base 50 mm lens. I would only trought away the huge lens hood, it kills the whole idea of having compact professional system
Extremely sharp (except the extreme corners wide open) at all apertures and very compact. Without the lens hood, this lens makes the Leica M fit in most jacket pockets
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Lens is well built but lacks the expensive feel of older Mandler optics. The physical length of the lens is a tad shorter than a 40mm Cron; very small. The rectangular hood arrangement is similar to current lenses and comes with a rectangular soft rubber cap. Viewing thruogh the finder the lens and hood cover the bottom 15% of the finder. Not a real issue.
Great lens, very sharp, small and beautiful. Handles great with tab for focussing. Build quality does not get any better. I have several leica lenses and they are all incredible. This one is new technology, but the 40 year old ones are spectacular as well.
One of the best Leica lenses ever! Great for the classic M look
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Well regarded lens in fine condition...
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Very sharp on my M9 and no visible distortion. Very light weight and works great for street photography. Also good for full body portraiture.
Do your research before buying your lens. The Leica R 28mm 4th version is known to be the final and best designed lens in this focal length pre aspherical. In my opinion the 4th version R28mm out performs the asph cousin.
Everyone thinks that a good Leica Lense has to come from Germany. not so! This one was made in Canada, and the optics are sharp, and this lense has great contrast as well.
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