Designed for Performance

The LEITZ PRIME lenses carry the tradition of the iconic Leitz SUMMILUX-C primes into the full frame format by offering a look that presents the world free of artifice, capturing images with a reality and fidelity that mimics the human eye. These lenses allow the cinematographer to build their looks through lighting, image modification, set design, and style with confidence that the lenses will not get in the way by introducing distracting aberrations, errant flares, or distortions that could take the viewer out of the story.

Their flat field with edge-to-edge consistent illumination and resolution provide a blank canvas to work from, while their warm color temperature and faithful color reproduction firmly ground the LEITZ PRIMEs in reality. Talent maintains a natural look rather than the clinical feeling given by other well-corrected lenses thanks to beautiful skin tone reproduction and smooth focus roll off.

The lack of breathing, chromatic aberration, and distortion even on the widest lenses help keep the viewer’s attention on the action and can make the work of VFX, virtual production and post production easier without sacrificing beautiful images.

Designed for Cinematography

The 13 full frame lenses in the LEITZ PRIME set range from 18 mm to 350 mm and have interchangeable mounts between PL and LPL, both with /i metadata. The widest 11 lenses offer a T1.8 aperture with the 180 mm T2.0 and 350 mm T3.6 rounding out the set. Matched focus and iris ring locations make lens changes quick and easy and matched color across the set provides consistent images with minimal adjustment required in post.

The LEITZ PRIMEs were designed from the beginning to match with the LEITZ ZOOMs offering a full family of lenses for every production scenario to provide clear, consistent, and beautiful images. There will never be another set of lenses like these.