Lenses can be like old friends. You love them dearly, but — for some reason or another — you may lose contact with them. On renewing the relationship, everything often falls back into place, as though the intervening years had never happened. The Leica 28 mm Summicron-M has been that sort of lens for me. Now that I’ve found a suitable external viewfinder, it’s my favorite multipurpose lens for the M Monochrom. In fact, if I could never change lenses on the Monochrom, it would probably be the one I would choose — for its versatile wide-angle focal length, compact size, and fast speed. Most of all, I would select it for its outstanding optical qualities. It seems perfectly poised between the new and old Leica lenses. The newer lenses tend to be sharper, while the older lenses generally have more character. Introduced at the photokina tradeshow in 2000, the aspherical 28 mm Summicron exhibits many of the best characteristics of both groups of lenses……

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