The rear plastic cap cracks, function is ok The Leitz Elmar 50mm (5cm) 3.5 is the Leica screwmount lens par excellence! An incredible amount of iconic images were taken with this lens.The Elmar holds a special place in the history of Leica cameras. Free from the other problems, such as haze & separation.

The front element has some cleaning marks, but does not affect photo image quality. Leica 50mm f3.5 Elmar M-mount, with a very nice serial number. Clear optics with only a few very slight front surface hairline scratches.

Clean, attractive barrel, with only light use. ELMAR, ELMAR CHROM LLC - 113 Production era - 1930-1950, 36,000+ lenses Variants - Nickel, chrome, metric, foot, heavy cam 7 o'clock and 11 o'clock bell push (11-BP) versions Lens mount - Screw-thread Number of lenses /groups - 5 /3 Aperture range - f/3.5-f/18 & f/16 Focusing range - 1 m / 3.28 ft Leica & Leica Copy > Screw Lenses > Leitz 50mm f3.5 Elmar-元9 uncoated Nickel collapsible lens (No Serial number) Leitz 50mm f3.5 Elmar-元9 uncoated Nickel collapsible lens (No Serial number) £ 219.00. Leica Luftwaffe Serial Numbers - potentausti Canon uses separate date codes, and Roland Vink is the world's. Sadly, Nikon and Canon are not as organized, and use completely unrelated serial numbers for every product. Because of this orderly behavior, it it trivial to figure out when your lens was made. Leica made lens number 1,000,000, a 50mm f/1.5 Summarit, on 24 October 1952, at which time they already had onver 100 years of experiance.

Variants - Nickel, chrome, metric, foot, heavy cam (11-BP) versions.

The original lens for the Leica Standard when introduced was the Leitz Elmar 1:3.5 F=50mm in a collapsible nickel-plated focusing mount with infinity catch. On the back of these models there is a hole covered by a black plug, presumably for back focus calibration. Take that as a guideline and the majority of 'rare Leicas' is out the door, simply because they can be had for USD 100-200 Buy It Now price at eBay or Craigslist It is found on early Leica Standards as well. First of all, if it is too good to be true, it probably isn't true to begin with. A Leica-faked Zorki-1 with Industar-22 lens, the Elmar 50mm 3.5 look-alike.