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Officially Announced: Versatile wide-angle lens Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16–35/3.5–4.5 ASPH.


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Leica today introduces the wide-angle Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16-35/3.5-4.5 ASPH.– the third zoom lens for the Leica SL.

 
Together with the other vario lenses the Leica SL system now covers a focal length range of 16 to 280 mm.
 
The newly designed optical system contains a total of 18 elements in 12 groups, including two asphericals for the correction of monochromatic aberrations. Three elements made from glass with anomalous partial dispersion correct chromatic aberration, while an improved mount geometry and high-quality coating ensure optimum suppression of reflections and stray light within the optical system.
 
The Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16–35/3.5–4.5 ASPH.will be on sale from 23 April, the German price will be 5.200 €, US price is $ 5495.

 

» Full information, technical specs and images in the Leica Blog

 

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It is nice to see the lens releases finally rolling out for the SL. I am really undecided about this lens. I love the (M) Tri-Elmar 16-18-21 and use it as much on my SL and I do the M10. I fear it might be a little redundant for me. However, I am excited to see images. The 24-90 is an incredible lens IMO. I am excited about the release of the 2/35-Summicron and will definitely be in line for that. I am still waiting for my 2/90-Summicron to show up as well.

 

I am also a little surprised at the diameter of this lens. I was enthusiastic about the decreased size of the 75 and 90-Crons. I see this one is back up to the size of the 24-90 and 90-280. Cheers--lt

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I'm especially interested to know if the MTF curves were obtained with the 17 element version shown in the engineering drawing or the 18 element version shown in the engineering diagram on the Leica web-site?

 

Equally puzzling is the apparent ability of the lens to change focal length without anything having to move!

 

I've paid my deposit but will have to wait to see what actually arrives. 

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I don't see the data mentioning optical stabilization so I'm going to assume it isn't. Does anybody know otherwise? 16-35 is probably one of my fav travel focal lengths, especially for simple walk around handheld video which would greatly benefit from optical stabilization. Currently, I use the A9 and 16-35g master for this task and it's been awesome. Just wondering/hoping I can do the same with this SL lens.

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With the release of the Leica SL lens 16 - 35 I would also like to give my first impression. I was allowed to try it for some time in advance.

Although I wrote it basically in German, but you have the ability to use the Google translation feature on the upper right edge of the screen.
Have fun while reading

 

https://norbertwindecker.blogspot.com/2018/04/erfahrungsbericht-test-review-leica.html

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I don't see the data mentioning optical stabilization so I'm going to assume it isn't. Does anybody know otherwise? 16-35 is probably one of my fav travel focal lengths, especially for simple walk around handheld video which would greatly benefit from optical stabilization. Currently, I use the A9 and 16-35g master for this task and it's been awesome. Just wondering/hoping I can do the same with this SL lens.

The SL manual states that the camera has some sort of on-board stabilization for video, regardless of whether the lens attached to it has image stabilization. I don't shoot much vid and can't comment on how well that works, but if you don't have the SL you may want to borrow one and see for yourself.

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I'm especially interested to know if the MTF curves were obtained with the 17 element version shown in the engineering drawing or the 18 element version shown in the engineering diagram on the Leica web-site?

 

Equally puzzling is the apparent ability of the lens to change focal length without anything having to move!

I'll have to look harder.  I didn't count the elements but I did notice how small the one focusing element is.  I hope this will be a quick one.  Maybe by looking at the threads suggested on the endingeering drawing with the mounting it is possible to see what moves when focal length changes.  The announcement says that there is no tromboning.  All other 15-35 ish lenses that I have seen stretch wayout at the wide end, and change their lengths in funny ways in between.  The Olympus wide zooms and the CL 11-23 do this.

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