The best Leica SL lenses: a guide to the full Leica SL lens range in 2024

The best Leica SL lenses: a guide to the full Leica SL lens range
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Welcome to our guide to the best Leica SL lenses – the best of the best you can get for L-mount. While the L-mount alliance between Leica, Sigma and Panasonic has grown to include many lenses at different price points, the SL range sit at the top as the best of the best. For unsurpassed quality and that premium Leica touch, you can't beat them.

Named after its founder, Ernst Leitz, Leica Camera has a rich heritage in designing and manufacturing full-frame cameras and lenses in Germany that stretches back over 100 years. The original concept was to enable large pictures to be created from relatively small negatives, placing great demands on the quality of the lens. That’s every bit as true today, with the 60-megapixel Leica SL3, 47-megapixel Leica SL2  and the 24-megapixel Leica SL2-S playing host to a range of exotic prime and zoom lenses.

Sebastian Oakley
Sebastian Oakley

For nearly two decades Sebastian's work has been published internationally. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, holds a Foundation Degree in Equitation Science, and is a Master of Arts in Publishing. He is familiar with and shows great interest in street, medium, and large format photography with products by Leica, Phase One, Hasselblad, Alpa, and Sinar.

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Sebastian Oakley
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For nearly two decades Sebastian's work has been published internationally. Originally specializing in Equestrianism, his visuals have been used by the leading names in the equestrian industry such as The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), The Jockey Club, Horse & Hound, and many more for various advertising campaigns, books, and pre/post-event highlights.

He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, holds a Foundation Degree in Equitation Science, and is a Master of Arts in Publishing.  He is a member of Nikon NPS and has been a Nikon user since the film days using a Nikon F5 and saw the digital transition with Nikon's D series cameras and is still to this day the youngest member to be elected into BEWA, The British Equestrian Writers' Association. 

He is familiar with and shows great interest in street, medium, and large format photography with products by Leica, Phase One, Hasselblad, Alpa, and Sinar. Sebastian has also used many cinema cameras from the likes of Sony, RED, ARRI, and everything in between. He now spends his spare time using his trusted Leica M-E or Leica M2 shooting Street photography or general life as he sees it, usually in Black and White.

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