I was expecting the manual focus to be a real pain, but one of the great things about this Summicron is the tab on the focus ring that your finger falls into below the lens and makes adjusting the focus super quick.
It’s simply a beautiful piece of engineering and you can’t help but admire it for that alone. I can see why some Leica shooters might think that the Fujinon lenses are “too light” – though when carrying them around in my bag all day I’d have to disagree! It’s a very solid heavy feeling lens, and despite the age, everything on it still has a silky smooth feel to it. The Summicron is the image of sexiness on the front of the X-Pro1! It just looks fantastic doesn’t it?! Retro cool! ?Īs soon as you hold the lens you can feel the quality. The one I had was in absolute mint condition and relatively, a bargain!įUJIFILM FinePix X100 (23mm, f/4, 1/140 sec, ISO400) You can still buy this same non-aspherical version new for the basement price of £1550. Despite the lens being around 25 years old, and although the lens design changed in 1994, the optical design has stayed the same until this day, and only recently have Leica introduced a newer aspherical design (which is a cool £5400!). The lens I managed to get was one from the mid 80’s, pre-asph. For those that don’t know, Leica name their lenses based on the maximum aperture, so a Summicron is an f/2.0 lens. Luckily I did not have to wait for long as I found a Summicron 50mm lens on eBay that went relatively cheaply so I picked it up, along with both a 3rd party and the genuine Fujifilm Leica M adapter. While I waited for it’s price to drop, I bought a few cameras for youtube as I am planning to start my own channel quite soon. I’d been wanting to use some Leica glass on my X-Pro1 for a long time, but it doesn’t come cheap so I kept putting it off. Using a Leica Summicron 50mm with the Fujifilm X-Pro1