Leitz Cine is including a 40mm T1.5 lens to their more and more well-liked Leitz HUGO collection of prime lenses for cinematography, named after the engineer Hugo Wehrenfennig, creator of the long-lasting Leica M bayonet mount.

This a lot wanted focal size – 40mm – brings the set to 14 complete lenses starting from 18mm to 135mm, persevering with its preliminary objective: to carry Leica M images optics with their wealthy colours, clever flares and rounded picture discipline 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 method that tells a singular story in a single body. HUGO lenses develop the magic to transferring photos.

Constructing on the recognition of the Leitz M 0.8 collection, the HUGO lenses take their identify from the engineer Hugo Wehrenfennig whose work for Leica Digicam (then Ernst Leitz GmbH, Wetzlar) included creating the long-lasting Leica M bayonet mount nonetheless in use in the present day together with most of the early M collection lenses.

The Leitz HUGO collection has caught the creativeness of cinematographers world wide trying to find a glance that brings character and softness to fashionable digital sensors with out the compromises present in older lenses. The glass in most HUGO lenses comes from Leica’s M rangefinder lenses and reveals an identical light discipline 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 help from Leica Digicam’s designers to make sure on-brand efficiency.

“The 40mm is a basic focal size in cinematography,” mentioned Rainer Hercher, Managing Director of Leitz Cine. “As quickly as we launched the HUGOs it was probably the most requested focal size so as to add, and we’re joyful to satisfy this want available in the market for extra Leitz glass.”

The lenses within the HUGO collection supply a couple of 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 Nineteen Sixties/70s, one of the 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.