Leitz Hugo Primes

The Leitz HUGO lenses take their name from esteemed engineer Hugo Wehrenfennig. Building on the popularity of the Leitz M 0.8 series, the Leitz HUGO lenses bring Leica M photography optics with their rich colors, artful flares and rounded image field firmly into the world of professional cinematography. M lenses have been renowned for over a century as the photographer’s choice to capture the moment, interpreting the world in a way that tells a unique story in a single frame.

Even wide open at T1.5 the lenses are sharp, but without feeling harsh. Their lower contrast keeps images smooth and falloff feeling natural even while details pop. The strong field curvature of the full frame lenses means that at faster stops the edges fall away noticeably in illumination, focus, and resolution allowing subjects to jump off the screen. The bokeh strongly smooths out details, blurring backgrounds into impressionistic backdrops further accentuating the separation between subject and setting.