How much does a used Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH cost?

The lowest used asking price we observed for the Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH is $1,100 across 4 sellers as of 2026-10-28. Launch price was $2,195, so used copies are going for about 50% of MSRP.

Where is the Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH cheapest used?

eBay had the lowest listing we saw, at $1,100 in good condition on 2026-10-28. Prices are asking prices and change daily; the table on this page lists every seller and grade we track.

Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH

Name: Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH
Brand: Leica
Availability: InStock

lens · L-mount · released 2014-09-16

Lowest now

$1,100

Good price -50% vs MSRP

See prices at 4 sources

MSRP at launch

$2,195

Sep 2014

Inventory

across 4 sources

Well above the 90-day low

How we compute this

Today's price sits well above the recent low. Today's price runs 29% above the 90-day low of $850 (seen Sep 15, 2026). 50% of the $2,195 MSRP. Prices have been steady this month.

Lowest now: $1,100
MSRP: $2,195
vs MSRP: -50%
90-day low: $850
All-time low: $850 (Sep 15, 2026)
30-day trend: +0.0%

Observed across 4 sources · 52 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Cite Should You Buy This Camera, "Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH used price", observed 2026-10-28, https://shouldyoubuythiscamera.com/cameras/leica/apo-vario-elmar-tl-55-135mm-f35-45-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
bh	excellent → excellent	$1,375	1	Observed 5d ago	view listing
ebay	used → good	$1,100 ships free	2	Observed 16h ago	view listing
mpb	excellent → excellent	$1,179	2	Observed 14h ago	view listing
upp	mint- → mint	$1,192	1	Observed 16h 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.

Specs

Brand: Leica
Family: Leica T
Category: lens
Body type: —
Mount: L-mount
Sensor: —
Megapixels: —
Lens type: zoom
Focal length: 55–135mm
Aperture: f/3.5–f/4.5
Weight: 500 g
Filter thread: 60mm
Length: 110 mm
Diameter: 68 mm
Construction: —
Released: 2014-09-16
Status: discontinued

Notes

The only native APS-C telephoto in the system, 82-202mm equivalent, apochromatic and genuinely sharp. Sold initially as the APO-Vario-Elmar-T, same order number 11083. MSRP here is the later US list price - no US launch figure was ever published (UK RRP at announcement was 1,350 pounds). Leica's own September 2014 press release says E52 for the filter thread and is wrong; every later source including Leica's spec sheet says E60. Discontinued date is month-precision.

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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.