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Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH

lens · Leica M · released 2015-01-01
Lowest now
$1,619
Good price -42% vs MSRP
See prices at 4 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$2,795
Jan 2015
Inventory
10
across 4 sources

Lowest price we've ever observed

How we compute this

Lowest price we've ever observed. This at $1,619 matches the lowest we've ever recorded for this body. That's 58% of the $2,795 MSRP. Prices are down 12.0% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$1,619
MSRP
$2,795
vs MSRP
-42%
90-day low
$1,619
All-time low
$1,619 (Sep 10, 2026)
30-day trend
-12.0%
Observed across 4 sources · 41 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
bh
good
→ good
$2,542
1 Observed 21h ago view listing
ebay
used
→ good
$1,990
shipping not quoted
2 Observed 21h ago view listing
keh
excellent plus
→ excellent
$2,134
1 Observed 15h ago view listing
keh
excellent
→ excellent
$2,135
1 Observed 15h ago view listing
keh
like new minus
→ mint
$2,266
1 Observed 15h ago view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$1,619
1 Observed 20h ago view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$1,839
3 Observed 20h 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 M
Category
lens
Body type
Mount
Leica M
Sensor
Megapixels
Lens type
prime
Focal length
28mm
Aperture
f/2.8
Weight
180 g
Filter thread
39mm
Length
66 mm
Diameter
Construction
Released
2015-01-01
Status
current

Notes

5th-generation Elmarit-M 28, current production. Fully manual focus/aperture.

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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.