Leica 80mm Summilux-R f/1.4 (ROM)

Great lens. Produces outstanding bokeh af f/1.4 and f/2, but is a bit soft until you stop it down to f/2.8, better yet f/4. Colors are very saturated and rich. The lens vignettes quite heavily at f/1.4. Also some CA but not too bad. Check the following...

This is a lens with some UNIQUE features. It is nice to hold, balances well with the camera and the pictures it delivers are totally STUNNING. I have tried it at night and it is superlative, even wide open. I have tried it in daylight, it is...

To me, the working aperture of this lens starts from F2.5, which gives me portraits with sufficient sharpness and nice bokeh. Wide open is good for those soft images,which is not my taste. (Other people say you obtain too characters in one lens.) Apart...

Having a friend that owns a camera store in our city, I have tried every camera and lens in the last few years and my goal was to find the perfect image. Let me tell you this lens is better then 20 20 vision wow" wow" wow"

If you were to rely on lens test reviews, particularly the one by Chasseur d''''''''''''''''Image, you wouldn''''''''''''''''t even dream of buying this lens. Many may even put this in the same category as the Leica-M 50mm f/1.0 Noctilux and the...

This lens killed my Japanese made lenses with similar focal lenght and speed when uses wide open.

I bought a used Leica 80mm Summilux-R f/1.4 (without ROM) 2 years ago. In order to compare it with other lens, I have done a lot of testing. After taking a huge rolls of films, I found its performance is over all other ones. It provides me more detials...