Leica Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16-35mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH
Prices are rising
How we compute thisUsed prices have been rising recently. Prices are up 108.4% over the last 30 days. The 90-day low was $1,799, $1,951 below today. Currently 68% of the $5,495 MSRP.
- Lowest now
- $3,750
- MSRP
- $5,495
- vs MSRP
- -32%
- 90-day low
- $1,799
- All-time low
- $1,799 (Sep 12, 2026)
- 30-day trend
- +108.4%
Cite Should You Buy This Camera, "Leica Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16-35mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH used price", observed 2026-10-28, https://shouldyoubuythiscamera.com/cameras/leica/super-vario-elmar-sl-16-35mm-f35-45-asph
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 | $3,750 | 1 | Observed 16h ago | view listing |
| ebay | used → good | $4,810 ships free | 2 | 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 SL
- Category
- lens
- Body type
- —
- Mount
- L-mount
- Sensor
- —
- Megapixels
- —
- Lens type
- zoom
- Focal length
- 16–35mm
- Aperture
- f/3.5–f/4.5
- Weight
- 990 g
- Filter thread
- 82mm
- Length
- 123 mm
- Diameter
- 88 mm
- Construction
- —
- Released
- 2018-04-23
- Status
- current
Notes
Fully Leica-designed ultra-wide zoom with no Sigma or Panasonic lineage, and it shows in the used market: it holds roughly 70 percent of list while the Sigma-derived 24-70 trades near 60. Announced 2018-04-09, shipping 2018-04-23.
More in this family
- Leica SL (Typ 601)
- Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 ASPH
- Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280mm f/2.8-4
- Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH
- Leica APO-Summicron-SL 75mm f/2 ASPH
- Leica APO-Summicron-SL 90mm f/2 ASPH
- Leica APO-Summicron-SL 50mm f/2 ASPH
- Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-70mm f/2.8 ASPH
- Leica SL2
- Leica SL2-S
- Leica APO-Summicron-SL 28mm f/2 ASPH
- Leica APO-Summicron-SL 35mm f/2 ASPH
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References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.
1. Price history
- #1.1 · Grade buckets
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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, andunknown. 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.