MS Optics Super Triplet Perar 24mm f/4 Super Wide

MS Optics · Leica M · 2014 · Triplet, three elements in three groups

Also known as: MS-OPTICS SUPER TRIPLET PERAR 24mm F4 · MS Optics Super Triplet Perar 24mm f/4 · MS-Optics Super Triplet Perar 24mm F4 Super Wide · MS Optical Super Triplet Perar 24mm f/4 · MS-Optical Super Triplet Perar 4/24 · MS Super Triplet Perar 4/24 · MS Optical Perar 24mm f/4 Super Wide · MS Optic Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide · MS Optic PERAR 24mm F4 · MS-Optics Perar 24mm F4 · MS-PERAR 24mm F4 · Super Triplet Perar 24mm F4 · Super-Triplet Perar 24mm · Perar Super Triplet 24mm f4 · Perar 24mm f/4 Super Wide · Perar 24mm F4 · Perar 24mm · Perar 24 mm · Perar 4/24 · Perar 24/4 · 宮崎光学 PERAR 24mm F4 · 宮崎光学ペラール 24mm F4 · 宮崎光学ペラ 24mm F4 · MS-OPTICS ペラール 24mm · ミヤザキペラール 24mm

Variants & identification

Variant	Mount	Years	Serial ranges	Production
Super Triplet Perar 4/24, black	Leica M	2014	—	No total published. Newsshooter wrote in May 2014 that only 50 of each finish were available worldwide and that another 100 of each were expected that year; Japan Exposures describes its stock as an initial lot, and Japan Camera Hunter as limited numbers.
Super Triplet Perar 4/24, silver	Leica M	2014	—	50 available worldwide in May 2014, with another 100 expected that year (Newsshooter, for each of the two finishes); no later figure
Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Platinum (Premium Collection, 2015)	Leica M	2015	—	"Supposedly" 10, but Japan Camera Hunter has seen two lenses numbered No:1 and takes it that there are 11 (Japan Camera Hunter, 15 July 2015)
Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Gold (Premium Collection, 2015)	Leica M	2015	—	"Supposedly one of 10" (Japan Camera Hunter, 15 July 2015), though Miyazaki did not tell the dealer how many he had made
Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Silver Rhodium (Premium Collection, 2015)	Leica M	2015	—	"Supposedly" 10, but Japan Camera Hunter had two lenses numbered 1 and suspected more (Japan Camera Hunter, 15 July 2015)

Weight: 40 g, 50 g with hood (Japan Exposures, Leica Rumors); 43 g, 50 g as a set (Miyazaki's handwritten data sheet, reproduced by Leica Rumors; Japan Camera Hunter, Imaging Resource); 35 g (shige_yuki, Phillip Reeve's site).
Closest focus: 0.8 m coupled, 0.5–0.6 m on mirrorless bodies (Japan Exposures, Leica Rumors); 0.8 to 1.0 m, varying from lens to lens because each is made by hand (Japan Camera Hunter); 0.65 m, with the rangefinder coupled from infinity to 0.8 m (shige_yuki, and 0.65 m on Reeve's site); 1.2 m in Newsshooter's text, against 0.8 m in the specification list printed in the same article.
Thickness 5.2 mm (Japan Exposures, Japan Camera Hunter, Reeve, shige_yuki's table), 5 mm in shige_yuki's text. Diameter 50 mm (Reeve, shige_yuki, Newsshooter). Angle of view 82° on 35mm, 60° on APS-C (Japan Exposures, Leica Rumors).
6-bit coding: Japan Exposures and Leica Rumors say the mount has an area for 6-bit coding, and the maker's specification printed by Newsshooter says the 6-bit code is applicable; Japan Camera Hunter says the lenses are not coded, though there is space on the mount for the code. No coded copy has been reported.
Finishes: Japan Exposures and Leica Rumors say black paint and other versions were not available in Japan. No black-paint Perar 24 is documented, so it has no row here.
Filter: Japan Exposures says the hood takes Leica Elmar-type 19 mm filters. Reeve's site says instead that you are meant to take the glass out of a 19 mm filter and glue it into the hood, and Newsshooter found the 19 mm thread awkward for ND filters.
Leica Rumors' list of coming MS lenses of July 2013 named a Super Triplet Perar 4.5/25 as a new issue and no 24 mm lens; the 24/4 came the next year, and Newsshooter's headline of May 2014 calls it a 25 mm. No source says whether the 4.5/25 became the 24/4, and no 25 mm Perar is documented.
Market: the 2026 Yahoo! Auctions sale of a silver lens, No. 057-S, closed at ¥131,000 after 43 bids, an auction price on which the seller charged no consumption tax (税0円).
Focal length and aperture: the maker's figures are 24.6 mm and f/4.08 (Miyazaki's data sheet; the specification printed by Newsshooter gives 24.6; Reeve gives both).
⁰ Serial suffixes: the black launch lens photographed by Leica Rumors is No. 055-B and the silver lens sold in 2026 No. 057-S; the silver lens in shige_yuki's photographs also ends in -S. Three lenses are too few to say whether every serial carries a finish letter.

How to tell them apart (expand)

About 5 mm thick, the size of a body cap
Exposed front aperture: the ten-blade iris sits in front of the glass and is set by turning the front of the lens with its hood; clickless, f/4 to f/16
Focusing lever under the barrel
Front ring engraved MS-OPTICAL PERAR 4/24 MC and SUPER·TRIPLET, with the serial number; distance scale from 0.8 m
Short screw-on tube hood holding a 19 mm filter
Iris by Otto Niemann Feinmechanik of Berlin (Japan Exposures)

Super Triplet Perar 4/24, black:

Black front ring, with light engraving and red MC
The serial on the front ring ends in B: Leica Rumors' launch photograph shows No. 055-B
The finish Japan Exposures sold; black paint and other versions were not offered in Japan

Super Triplet Perar 4/24, silver:

Silver front ring in place of the black, with black engraving and red MC
The serial ends in S: the copy sold on Yahoo! Auctions in 2026 is No. 057-S, and the lens in shige_yuki's review also reads -S

Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Platinum (Premium Collection, 2015):

Platinum plating on the lens, and on its cap and hood
Numbered; Japan Camera Hunter saw two lenses marked No:1

Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Gold (Premium Collection, 2015):

Gold plating
Premium Collection engraving

Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Silver Rhodium (Premium Collection, 2015):

Rhodium plating
Numbered; Japan Camera Hunter had two lenses marked 1

Super Triplet Perar 4/24, black: The standard lens. Japan Camera Hunter announced it on 30 June 2014, Imaging Resource reported it on 1 July and Leica Rumors on 7 July, when Japan Exposures listed it at ¥63,900 and was already out of stock. Phillip Reeve's site dates the first release to June 2014.
Super Triplet Perar 4/24, silver: Shown beside the black lens at the PICEX show in Hong Kong and written up by Mat Gallagher for Newsshooter on 9 May 2014, seven weeks before the Japanese launch, at US$774 (HK$6,000) for either colour. Japan Exposures and Leica Rumors say that black paint and other versions were not available in Japan, so the silver lens was presumably one of the versions sold outside Japan. A silver copy, No. 057-S, in very good condition by the seller's account, sold on Yahoo! Auctions from a seller in Chiba for ¥131,000 after 43 bids on 24 May 2026, an auction price with no consumption tax charged (税0円).
Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Platinum (Premium Collection, 2015): One of three Premium Collection editions of the 24 that Japan Camera Hunter sold from July 2015. Bellamy Hunt, who runs it, assumes the duplicate number is a mistake, noting that Miyazaki has made spelling and numbering mistakes on past lenses, especially the triplets. The article gives no price.
Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Gold (Premium Collection, 2015): Miyazaki offered Japan Camera Hunter a gold-plated 24 without saying what kind of gold plate it was or how many there were. Hunt also knew of a slightly different gold lens sold only in the Hong Kong market; he does not say how the two differ, and the Hong Kong lens is not pictured.
Perar 24mm F/4 Super Wide Silver Rhodium (Premium Collection, 2015): The third Premium Collection edition. Hunt's two copies were both numbered 1, as with the platinum lens.

Specifications

Formula: Triplet, three elements in three groups
Designed by: Miyazaki Sadayasu (宮崎貞安) — optical design and hand assembly
Construction: 3 elements / 3 groups
Aperture range: f/4–f/16
Diaphragm blades: 10
Min. focus: 0.8 m
Dimensions: 50 × 5.2 mm
Weight: 40 g
Filter: 19 mm, 19 mm Elmar-type filter, screwed inside the supplied hood
Years manufactured: 2014
Country: Japan
Coating: All six glass surfaces multicoated; 96% transmission (Japan Exposures, and the maker's specification printed by Newsshooter), 95% (Japan Camera Hunter)
Original price: ¥63,900 at launch, the dealer price at Japan Exposures, one of MS's two official distributors (Leica Rumors, 7 July 2014, which does not say whether Japanese tax is included); Japan Exposures' listing now shows ¥69,900, sold out, again without a word on tax. shige_yuki's table gives ¥60,000 before tax, without saying whose price it is. At the PICEX show in Hong Kong in May 2014 both the black and the silver lens were priced US$774 (HK$6,000), according to Newsshooter. (today ¥71,000)

What reviewers say

shige_yuki (Shige's hobby) (blog) — Clear and crisp in the centre for three pieces of glass, but the field curves and smears at the edges, and older full-frame sensors show a magenta cast (worse on the M-P Typ 240 than the M9); he finds it best on APS-C or smaller sensors.

Optical Ratings

Aggregated from the reviews above — follow the links for the full picture.

Distortion: slight pincushion

History

The Super Triplet Perar 24mm f/4 is a Leica M wide-angle from the Chiba workshop of Miyazaki Sadayasu, trading as MS-Optical. shige_yuki counts it the firm’s fifth product and the third of its thin triplets. The Perar 35mm f/3.5 of 2010 and the 28mm f/4 of 2012 came before it, and the 21mm f/4.5 followed in 2015. It is three elements in three groups, two of them thick positive elements by Japan Exposures’ account, multicoated on all six surfaces. The ten-blade iris, made by Otto Niemann Feinmechanik in Berlin, sits in front of the glass. The lens is 5.2 mm thick, the size of a body cap, and weighs 35 to 43 g depending on the source; Miyazaki’s own data sheet gives 43 g. It focuses with a small lever, is rangefinder-coupled to 0.8 m, and takes a 19 mm filter inside its tube hood.

It was on show in Hong Kong at the PICEX fair in May 2014, seven weeks before its Japanese launch, in black and in silver at US$774. Newsshooter reported then that 50 of each finish were available worldwide and another 100 of each were expected that year. Japan Camera Hunter and Japan Exposures, which Imaging Resource called MS’s two official distributors, launched it at the turn of June and July 2014. Japan Exposures sold it in black only, at ¥63,900; its listing now shows ¥69,900. Japan Exposures and Leica Rumors both say black paint and other versions were not sold in Japan, and no black-paint 24 is documented. The silver lens is known from Newsshooter’s photographs, from the lens in shige_yuki’s review, whose serial also ends in -S, and from a copy, No. 057-S, sold in Japan in 2026; the black launch lens Leica Rumors photographed is No. 055-B, so the serial may carry a finish letter. No total for the run has been published.

In July 2015 Japan Camera Hunter sold three plated Premium Collection editions of the 24: platinum (lens, cap and hood all plated), gold, and silver rhodium. Each was said to be limited to 10, but Bellamy Hunt had seen two platinum lenses numbered No:1 and had two rhodium lenses numbered 1, so the counts may be higher; he took the platinum run to be 11. Only the gold lens is described with the Premium Collection engraving. Hunt also knew of a slightly different gold version sold only in Hong Kong. He warned that all of these lenses had imperfections: slightly smudged printing and a rubbing mark on the front. His article is the only source for the three editions, and no sale of one has been recorded.

shige_yuki found the lens crisp in the centre and weaker at the edges, where the field curves, with slight pincushion distortion. On older full-frame digital sensors it can show a magenta cast at the edges with the lens wide open; he found it worse on the M-P Typ 240 than on the M9 and recommends APS-C or smaller sensors. Newsshooter saw some vignetting in full-frame video on a Sony a7R. On film shige_yuki suggests small bodies such as the Minolta CLE. When buying, check how close the lens focuses and that the rangefinder agrees, since Japan Camera Hunter says the closest distance varies between 0.8 and 1.0 m from lens to lens. The aperture has no clicks and is set by turning the front of the lens. Make sure the screw-on hood is present: it protects the exposed front of the lens and is the only way to fit a filter. A silver lens sold for ¥131,000 on Yahoo! Auctions in May 2026, about twice the black lens’s Japanese launch price.

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