What now were these new, economical lenses? This was almost blasphemy for the Leica users who are accustomed to hand-made lenses designed with no considerations to cost. The "Summarit Quartet" of the 35mm, 50mm, 75mm and 90mm f/2.5-lenses was born during a period with changing CEOs and changing ownership of Leica Camera AG.
The Leica Summarit lenses have an aura of "not good enough" about them. (The Leica 90mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.5 review is on this page) Over the years, Leica have refined the 90mm lenses for combined macro (the f/4.0 Macro-Elmar), the inexpensive Summarit (f/2.4), and the outstanding APO (f/2.0). Further down the road, Leitz introduced the legendary Thambar lens that was deliberately made "faulty" to make blurred portraits that looked like the large format Hollywood portraits (where the photographer would put vaseline on the front lens to smooten the skin and produce a soft, glowing, radiant portrait!). The first 90mm lenses from Leitz became popular as portrait lenses because you could blur out the background and isolate the person in the portrait.
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