Excellent circa 1955 Red Scale, f3.5/50mm coated Elmar lens.

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For Leica screw mount bodies. In this listing we have an 3.5/50mm coated Elmar lens. It’s the so-called red scale version because of the red numbers on the lens mount. This is the last version of the 3.5/50mm screw mount Elmar lens with the triangular focus indicator between the red numbering and it’s widely regarded the best one that Leitz produced. The red scale elmar featured newer postwar glass and a mild rework of the classic optical design. The cosmetics and the precision of the assembly w