It stands to reason that Germany's Leica lens technology is superb. Why doesn't Leica have a zoom head?

are you looking at the Leica m paraxial lens?

Leica's camera system is divided into a paraxial camera and a SLR camera. The paraxial camera really has only two zooms, and the auxiliary factory has only three or four. For the M system, Leica is not unwilling to do it, but they just don't want to do it. It is different from the big and complete Japanese manufacturers. The essence of Leica lies in the paraxial lens. When Leica achieves the global NO.1 on the paraxial fixed-focus lens, it is not necessary to achieve the zoom lens No.1.. Leica's fixed-focus lens is undoubtedly the best in the current mass-produced lens. There is no doubt that no matter Canon or Nikon, as long as it is a mass-produced fixed-focus lens, it is not as good as Leica. In addition, Leica has always insisted on doing a paraxial camera, which is a completely different photography system from SLR cameras. For SLR cameras, zoom lenses are necessary, but for paraxial users, on the contrary, few users are willing to use zoom lenses, and paraxial systems, due to structural reasons, almost 135MM telephoto lenses are at the limit, and telephoto belongs to the stage of SLR, but wide angle is undoubtedly the advantage of paraxial, which is caused by the differences between different camera structures. As a paraxial system dominated by wide-angle lens, there is no need to use zoom lens, such as 21-28-35 zoom, which is meaningless. The essence of paraxial lies in the 35MM focal length, in which Leica has no rival except Zeiss, and paraxial users often have one camera and one mirror for life, which determines that Leica has only a few zoom lenses. In addition, the price of Leica and the degree of preservation of the second hand are all proof of the top lens. Consumers are not fools, and no matter how bad the lens is, no one will pursue it.

In another product line, Leica SLR products, the number of Leica zoom lenses is quite large. You can find out by searching Leica R series lenses, but Leica M is so famous that not many people pay attention to it.