Leitz Cine is including a 40mm T1.5 lens to their more and more in style Leitz HUGO collection of prime lenses for cinematography, named after the engineer Hugo Wehrenfennig, creator of the enduring Leica M bayonet mount.
This a lot wanted focal size – 40mm – brings the set to 14 whole lenses starting from 18mm to 135mm, persevering with its preliminary objective: to convey Leica M pictures optics with their wealthy colours, clever flares and rounded picture subject firmly into the world {of professional} cinematography. M lenses have been famend for over a century because the photographer’s option to seize the second, deciphering the world in a means that tells a novel story in a single body. HUGO lenses broaden the magic to transferring photos.
Constructing on the recognition of the Leitz M 0.8 collection, the HUGO lenses take their title from the engineer Hugo Wehrenfennig whose work for Leica Digicam (then Ernst Leitz GmbH, Wetzlar) included creating the enduring Leica M bayonet mount nonetheless in use immediately together with most of the early M collection lenses.
The Leitz HUGO collection has caught the creativeness of cinematographers all over the world trying to find a glance that brings character and softness to trendy digital sensors with out the compromises present in older lenses. The glass in most HUGO lenses comes from Leica’s M rangefinder lenses and displays the same light subject curvature with a fall off towards the corners that brings the viewer towards the middle of the picture. Whereas a 40mm doesn’t exist in present Leica optics, it was created with assist from Leica Digicam’s designers to make sure on-brand efficiency.
“The 40mm is a traditional focal size in cinematography,” stated Rainer Hercher, Managing Director of Leitz Cine. “As quickly as we launched the HUGOs it was essentially the most requested focal size so as to add, and we’re joyful to meet this want available in the market for extra Leitz glass.”
The lenses within the HUGO collection provide just a few surprises for intrepid cinematographers, together with the 66mm T2.1 and the 50mm T1.0. The 66mm makes use of the identical design because the fabled Leica ELCAN “Spy Lens” from the Sixties/70s, probably the most uncommon lenses ever produced by Leica. The 50mm makes use of the glass of Leica’s 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux-M, an iconic lens within the Leica Digicam pantheon of optics.
The Leitz HUGO 40mm lens is scheduled to be delivered in This autumn of 2025 with preorders open now.
