Leica Thambar-M 90mm f/2.2
Lowest since we started watching
How we compute thisThe lowest we've seen, though we've only been tracking this one for 4 days. $5,560 is the floor so far, which is not the same as a floor. Prices have been steady this month.
We've only been tracking this model for 4 days. We don't call a price a record until we have 30 days behind it.
- Lowest now
- $5,560
- 90-day low
- $5,560
- Low in 4d watched
- $5,560 (Oct 23, 2026)
- 30-day trend
- +0.0%
Cite Should You Buy This Camera, "Leica Thambar-M 90mm f/2.2 used price", observed 2026-10-28, https://shouldyoubuythiscamera.com/cameras/leica/thambar-m-90mm-f22
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ebay | used → good | $5,560
+ $39 ship
= $5,599 | 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 M
- Category
- lens
- Body type
- —
- Mount
- Leica M
- Sensor
- —
- Megapixels
- —
- Lens type
- prime
- Focal length
- 90mm
- Aperture
- f/2.2
- Weight
- 500 g
- Filter thread
- 49mm
- Length
- —
- Diameter
- —
- Construction
- —
- Released
- 2017-01-01
- Status
- discontinued
Notes
A 2017 reissue of a 1935 soft-focus portrait lens, with a centre-spot filter that makes the softness worse on purpose. Catalogue status in 2026 is unconfirmed.
More in this family
- Leica Summicron 50mm f/2 Rigid (1956)
- Leica Summicron-M 35mm f/2 8-element (1958)
- Leica Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 Steel Rim (1961)
- Leica Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 pre-ASPH (1962)
- Leica Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 pre-ASPH (1967)
- Leica Tele-Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8 thin (1974)
- Leica Noctilux-M 50mm f/1 (1976)
- Leica Summicron-M 35mm f/2 King of Bokeh (1979)
- Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2 (1979)
- Leica Summicron-M 90mm f/2 pre-ASPH (1980)
- Leica Summilux-M 75mm f/1.4 (1980)
- Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 (1993)
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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.