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Known to users as the MATE, the Medium Angle Tri-Elmar, this lens replaces three primes with one 8 element, 6 group design giving 28, 35 and 50mm at a constant f/4. The second version in black, order code 11625, uses an E49 front and the A53 clamp-on hood rather than the first version's E55 thread. All versions together were built from 1998 to 2007 and total roughly 8,575 lenses, which makes it one of the shorter runs in the modern M catalogue. Weight is about 340 g.