

With the more moderate focal lengths and usually lighter weight, they make better lenses for travel photography too.

Night photography is possible too and with the wider angles, great Leica lenses for street photography and landscape photography. The large aperture is makes them great Leica lenses for portrait photography. The Summicrons are as good as Summilux lenses and the f/2 makes them still pretty fast lenses. If you want the best Leica lenses that strike a balance between price, size and speed, theses are the most popular Leica lenses. But there is a downside to this speed: First these are much pricier than the Summicron and also generally heavier and bulkier. When it comes to fast lenses, the Summilux line takes the cake with the f/1.4 aperture.

Strikes a balance between price/size and speed These are Leica’s f/2 maximum aperture line of lenses. Looking at the Leica name meanings, Summi comes from the latin “Summa” (or summit), and cron is for “chroma”. Leica Summicrons are Leica lenses that sit between the Summilux and Elmarit lenses.
