| The Leica 24mm f/1.4 SUMMILUX-M is very
high-speed and compact lens which gives photo- journalists
a new tool for their work. The lens is ideal for available
light photography. Like the 21mm f/1.4, it consists of
ten lenses in eight groups. Until the advent of state-of-the-art
blank-press methods for aspherical lenses, it was not
possible to create these new Summilux-M lenses.
Hand assembled in Solms Germany, this meticulous craftsmanship
also ensures long term reliability even in challenging
conditions. The correction of color imperfections requires
great deal of effort and to that end this 24mm lens
incorporates five separate lenses with anomalous partial
dispersion.
As a result, vignetting and distortion, the parameters
traditionally difficult to control in fast wide-angle
lenses, are corrected so well that they are hardly noticeable
in practice. Even at an f-stop of 2.8, in effect, only
natural vignetting is present. |
