Excellent 1959 Red Scale, f3.5/50mm coated Elmar lens.

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For Leica screw mount bodies. In this listing we have an 3.5/50mm coated Elmar lens. It’s the so-called red scale version (because of the red numbers on the lens mount). This is the last version of the 3.5/50mm screw mount Elmar lens and it widely regarded the best one that Leitz produced. The red scale elmar featured newer postwar glass and a mild rework of the classic optical design. The cosmetics and the precision of the assembly was improved as well. What didn’t change was the unique Leica l