For decades cinematographers and lens designers have searched for lenses with optimally corrected optics that perform equally well across the entire image field and are as fast as possible. By combining a century of optics knowledge with cutting edge optical and mechanical innovation, Leitz Cine have produced some of the most advanced cine optics on the planet in the Leitz Performance lens family.

With even field illumination, negligible loss of resolution in the corners of the frame, preservation of detail in low light and low contrast situations, and almost imperceptible chromatic aberrations and other image impurities through the entire aperture range, the lenses in the LEITZ PRIMEs and Leitz SUMMILUX-C sets represent the technical best that cinematography lenses can achieve while remaining humane, gentle, and never clinical or mechanical in image look and feel. This combination is unmatched by any other lenses on the market today. 

The bokeh of these lenses maintain a clarity that allows out of focus elements to remain recognizable while still creating good separation and depth. Well-controlled flaring permits strong in-frame light sources with minimal image degradation. These lenses provide cinematographers a naturally beautiful, clean slate on which to build their images with lighting and other tools without worrying about the lenses shouting over the rest of their efforts. The clean, flat image also aids in VFX, virtual production, and post production work.