Leica Vario-Elmar-TL 18-56mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH
Lowest price we've ever observed
How we compute thisLowest price we've ever observed. This at $419 matches the lowest we've ever recorded for this body. That's 24% of the $1,750 MSRP. Prices are down 18.5% over the last 30 days.
- Lowest now
- $419
- MSRP
- $1,750
- vs MSRP
- -76%
- 90-day low
- $419
- All-time low
- $419 (Oct 24, 2026)
- 30-day trend
- -18.5%
Cite Should You Buy This Camera, "Leica Vario-Elmar-TL 18-56mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH used price", observed 2026-10-28, https://shouldyoubuythiscamera.com/cameras/leica/vario-elmar-tl-18-56mm-f35-56-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 | good → good | $625 | 1 | Observed 15h ago | view listing |
| bh | excellent → excellent | $700 | 1 | Observed 15h ago | view listing |
| ebay | used → good | $569 ships free | 2 | Observed 16h ago | view listing |
| mpb | good → good | $419 | 1 | Observed 14h ago | view listing |
| mpb | excellent → excellent | $489 | 6 | 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.
Specs
- Brand
- Leica
- Family
- Leica T
- Category
- lens
- Body type
- —
- Mount
- L-mount
- Sensor
- —
- Megapixels
- —
- Lens type
- zoom
- Focal length
- 18–56mm
- Aperture
- f/3.5–f/5.6
- Weight
- 256 g
- Filter thread
- 52mm
- Length
- 60 mm
- Diameter
- 63 mm
- Construction
- —
- Released
- 2014-04-24
- Status
- discontinued
Notes
The T/TL/CL system's standard kit zoom, 28-85mm equivalent on APS-C. Sold 2014-2015 as the Vario-Elmar-T under the same order number 11080; used listings use both names. The cheapest way into TL glass by a wide margin and the only one with real used-market depth. Discontinued date is month-precision (September 2022), day is a placeholder.
More in this family
- Leica Summicron-TL 23mm f/2 ASPH
- Leica T (Typ 701)
- Leica APO-Vario-Elmar-TL 55-135mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH
- Leica Super-Vario-Elmar-TL 11-23mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH
- Leica Summilux-TL 35mm f/1.4 ASPH
- Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-TL 60mm f/2.8 ASPH
- Leica TL
- Leica TL2
- Leica CL
- Leica Elmarit-TL 18mm f/2.8 ASPH
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Browse shots on FlickrHow 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
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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.