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Leica reissued the Thambar in 2017 as the Thambar-M 90mm f/2.2, order code 11697, reviving the 1930s soft-focus portrait lens of which only around 3,000 originals were made. Four elements in three groups are left deliberately under-corrected for spherical aberration, and a removable centre spot filter blocks the core of the beam to intensify the glow; the barrel carries two aperture scales, white for use without the filter and red for use with it. Twenty diaphragm blades, E49 filters, black paint finish.