Leitz 50mm f3.5 Elmar LTM Lens Condition: Mint/Mint-

Leitz 50mm f3.5 Elmar 
 
(10% discount ofn this lens when bought with a Leica IIIg from FilmFurbish - refunded after checkout)
 
About this lens:
 
A beautiful lens in near mint condition, the lens is clean and clear, no scratches or haze, which is exceptionally rare for these lenses, with a very slight amount of the usual dust you would expect for a lens of this age. Probably one of the few without scratches available. Comes with a metal Leica lenscap and body cap.
 
Serial Number: 304798
Year of Manufacture: 1936
10 blade lens with 4 elements in 3 groups.

 
About the Leica 35mm f3.5 Summaron
 
LEICA 50mm f/3.5ELMAR (1925-1961) The world's First Interchangeable Lens for a 35mm Camera .
This is the lens that started 35mm photography according to some experts. Leitz first made the world's first interchangeable-lens 35mm camera in 1930, and this was the first interchangeable lens provided with it.
 
The LEICA ELMAR 50/3.5 was so good that it allowed 35mm cameras to make big prints as sharp as the popular 8 x 10" cameras of the era.
This is the lens that was so good that it established 35mm as the world's most popular format, a format which both lives today and which spawned the 24 x 36mm "full-frame" digital format.
 
An uncoated lens , it gives sharp, colorful, contrasty images. It competes with even the newest lenses, it weighs only half as much as a Summicron, has no distortion or finder blockage, it collapses almost completely into the camera and pokes out less than 10mm (0.37mm).
 
From 1930-1932 lenses were shipped to match only one body.
In 1932 the lens mounts were standardized so that all lenses were interchangeable among all LEICAs.
Standardized lenses are marked with a small "o" engraved on the rotating barrel near the focus lever.
 
Starting in 1946 these were both anti-reflection coated and the aperture scale was standardized to the usual f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11 and f/16. The earlier lenses were marked at f/3.5, f/4.5, f/6.3, f/9, f/12.5 and f/18.
 
Diameter
47.15 mm (1.856") maximum diameter of focus scale and mount, measured.
36mm (1.417") front outer mount diameter.
 
Length, Extended
31.64mm (1.246") extension from flange.
39.25mm (1.545") overall.
 
Length, Collapsed
9.40mm (0.370") extension from flange.
31.63mm (1.245") overall.
 
Weight
111.2g (3.920 oz.), measured, 1934 version.