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Introduced in 1969, this lens was designed by Angenieux for the Leitz Leicaflex SLR camera. This was the first zoom offered for this camera system and it covers the 135/FF (36x24mm) format. Our goal has been to add more rehoused vintage zooms, esepcially full frame zooms to compliment our vintage primes. This lens is an excellent match to some of our oldest lenses like Baltars, Super Baltars, Kowa Prominars, TLS Canon Rangefinder, and Cooke Speed Panchros. It has single layer coatings that flare beautifully, has medium contrast, with good center sharpness, and gentle fall off. It also has surprising low CA for a lens its age. Bokeh is smooth, and never busy, making this a beautiful portrait lens with a really nice range especially for full frame sensors.

This is a fully rehoused, PL mount, vintage full frame zoom. It’s parfocal, has an expanded focus throw of 330 degrees. It’s relatively fast at f2.8 and very compact making it perfect for handheld, gimbal, Steadicam, and anywhere you need a compact vintage zoom. We asked GL Optics to improve close focus from the original 3’, and we are thrilled that this version now focuses inside of 2’. *

*This is GL Optics’s MKII version of this lens. The MKI only focuses to 3’. So please keep that in mind if you find other versions with different specs than ours.