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Leica APO-Summicron-SL 28mm f/2 ASPH

lens · L-mount · released 2021-02-18
Lowest now
$3,300
Good price -36% vs MSRP
See prices at 2 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$5,195
Feb 2021
Inventory
2
across 2 sources

Lowest since we started watching

How we compute this

The lowest we've seen, though we've only been tracking this one for 18 days. $3,300 is the floor so far, which is not the same as a floor. That's 64% of the $5,195 MSRP. Prices are down 10.5% over the last 30 days.

We've only been tracking this model for 18 days. We don't call a price a record until we have 30 days behind it.

Lowest now
$3,300
MSRP
$5,195
vs MSRP
-36%
90-day low
$3,300
Low in 18d watched
$3,300 (Oct 17, 2026)
30-day trend
-10.5%
Observed across 2 sources · 18 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Cite Should You Buy This Camera, "Leica APO-Summicron-SL 28mm f/2 ASPH used price", observed 2026-10-28, https://shouldyoubuythiscamera.com/cameras/leica/apo-summicron-sl-28mm-f2-asph

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay and MPB links are affiliate links. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
ebay
used
→ good
$3,300
ships free
 1 Observed 16h ago view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$3,689
 1 Observed 14h ago view listing

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.

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Specs

Brand
Leica
Family
Leica SL
Category
lens
Body type
—
Mount
L-mount
Sensor
—
Megapixels
—
Lens type
prime
Focal length
28mm
Aperture
f/2.0
Weight
700 g
Filter thread
67mm
Length
102 mm
Diameter
73 mm
Construction
—
Released
2021-02-18
Status
current

Notes

The wide end of the five-lens APO-Summicron-SL prime family (28, 35, 50, 75, 90), all f/2, all on E67 filters. Frequently published as a 2020 lens; it is 2021.

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Methods

How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
#1.4 · Shipping
Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
#1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.