Best Affordable Compact 50mm for Leica M...and it's NOT a Leica! 

I have this lens and I really like it! It's not as sharp as the cron but certainly sharp enough. Bit more muted colors, very pleasant images

TIL that ELCAN is Ernst Leitz Canada. The majority of our rifles (Canadian Army) have ELCAN sights mounted on them.

hot take: leica m5 actually looks quite cool

The M5 in the thumbnail is really cool!

I’ve just looked at the website of LLL and they have now sold out … but at £635 I don’t see this as a cheap lens when Zeiss is out there ! Nice review though. Thanks

What about Canon 50/1.8 LTM? Also compact and affordable...

Be careful when buying from LLL because one of the guys working there doesn't take customer information and customer privacy seriously. He shared that you were buying it in a discord server and he often shares customers buying it and discusses customers in there with other users.

I quite like my Voigtlander 50mm f1.5, but it is much larger than this lens. However, it is a ‘pretty affordable’ lens that gets amazing results.

I own both the 35 and the 50 and Im in love!

Highly Impressed with Light Lens Lab…. My 35mm is fantastic

Cool lens! Looked really good wide open.

I hope they do a 28mm next

you got me excited after seeing the M5 in the preview shot, but was disappointed in your choice of lens! still, you are right it IS affordable!

So they made a Tessar design lens- 4 elements

Best compact 50mm M mount lens? Hmm, the CV 50mm 1.5 II Nokton would disagree.

To me it's zeiss planar 50mm F2 ZM. It's on par with Apo Summicron.

First! Love the jacket btw!

That water cliffhanger XD

Great review, but we need more of that m5

Kai, it's a bit whoopsie you don't write the actual name of the lens in the information area, or better still have it in the title? No? ...😮

I see an M5, I click

@0:26 that salsa track is banging. Anyone know the artist?

Who uses the that techart pro adapter

If you want affordable, compact and sharp: summicron 40 it is!

7:16 what of bag is that?

Hello LoK

The bokeh is not classic 50/60-ish Leica bokeh.

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I can't see many Leica users if any with a lens on which CHINA is written right in front of it...Let's be real...I know Leica SL MILC users with some old Voigtlander lenses that show a wey nicer contrast and wey better bokeh then today over absurdly exaggerated contrast that eats details in shadows and drowns shadows in blak ink like poured from above, but still there is no CHINA written anywhere on them, let alone in front... If you want to be realy special, you can use smc Pentax 43mm f1.9 Special with Leica M mount. For K mount is Limited, for M mount is Special - made in Japan by Pentax with M mount. I don't know if they made Special in Vietnam, but in Japan I'm sure. I have de FA MIJ for K mount, bought before moving production to Vietnam. You need to stop down to f2.4 or at least f2, because @ f1.9 the bokeh is ugly and the rendering pretty soft. At f5.6 is ultra sharp but still with nice gradations and with some local contrast in photoshop you can have medium format look.

No 💩 Leica is not affordable that’s what makes it special

For its money, I'd rather get made in Japan CV lens. With all what China is wrong doing for freedoms and else... For same reason I don't buy German Leitz made from specific time frame. Only after it.

Putting ANYTHING on a LEICA OTHER than a Leica is simply not done.

I am bored of these reviews of crappy Chinese lenses