What's Included:
Leica Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 ASPH Lens
Rear Lens Cap for M-Lenses
Lens Cap
Leather Lens Case
User Manual
(Please note user manual may come as English version hardcopy or softcopy)
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Features:
Leica M Mount Lens
Aperture Range: f/0.95 to f/16
Two Aspherical Surfaces
Rear Floating Element
Five Partial Dispersion Glass Lenses
Three High Refraction Glass Lenses
6-Bit Lens Coding
Minimum Focus Distance: 3.3'
Extendable Built-In Lens Hood
Filter Thread: 60mm
Offering an incredibly unique rendition and speed for the Leica M mount, the Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 ASPH Lens from Leica is a specially designed optic with exceptional depth of field control. The lens' optical design uses a total of eight elements in five groups with five partial dispersion lenses for controlling color defects while three lenses are highly refractive for controlling distortion and spherical aberrations while keeping the design compact. Additionally, two of the surfaces are aspherical and a rear floating element is able to dramatically improve the close-up performance of the lens throughout the f/0.95 to f/16 aperture range.
The lens features Leica's 6-bit coding for sending metadata to digital M cameras, allowing for proper frame lines to be shown as well as proper digital correction of lens aberrations to be done in-camera. The lens also has a minimum focus distance of 3.3' and an extendable lens hood to limit flare.
Produces extremely diffuse, soft backgrounds
Fully manual lens operation
11% greater light-gathering capacity than its predecessor, the Noctilux-M 50mm f/1
Limited distortion with a maximum of just 1%
Limited vignetting of 3.2 stops at full aperture in 35mm format which stopping-down improves significantly
Floating 2-element rear lens group retains consistent performance at closer shooting distances
Built-in collapsing hood
Accepts 60mm filters
Lens mount has 6-bit code allowing digital M-series cameras to identify lens and its characteristics
Depth-of-field scale at rear of lens barrel
Specifications:
https://au.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/M-Lenses/Summilux-M-50mm-f-1.4-ASPH
What Leica's Lens Name mean?
Leica's Lens Name Simplified. Leica lens name / trademarks are basically the f/stop of the lens.
f/stopLeica Naming/Trademark
f/0.95Noctilux
f/1Noctilux
f/1.2Noctilux
f/1.4Summilux
f/2Summicron
f/2.5Summarit
f/2.8Elmarit
f/3.5Elmar
f/3.8Elmar, Super-Elmar
f/4Elmar
f/4.5Hektor
Other Meaningful Marks, some of Leica's words are more meaningful.
MarkMeaning
ASPHAspherical
APOApochromatic
Tele, TelytTelephoto
VarioZoom
Tri*Zoom (see Note)
*Note: Because Leica's M camera finders only work at a few fixed focal lengths, Leica's zooms for their rangefinder cameras only stop at three click-stopped values corresponding to the few available frame lines of the M cameras. Since Leica's zooms only stop at three settings, Leica calls them Tri-Elmar to avoid the word zoom
If you are interested to know how to Pronunce their Lens names...
Pronunciation: From 1955 summer edition of "Leica Photography" this is how to pronounce the names:
ELMAR: ell' mar
HEKTOR: heck'tore
SUMMARON: soom'uh ron
SUMMICRON: soom' ih cron
SUMMITAR: soom'ih tar
SUMMAREX: soom' uh rex
STEMART: seee' mar
TELYT: tell' eat