Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: >That is correct, back to the origin of the 1.0 design. There was a 1.2 >Noctilux. I got to play with Alfred Eisenstadt's 1.2 Noctilux. Nice lens= , >with an aspheric element. But it's reportedly not as good as the new one= , >which didn't need an aspheric element because of the "noctilux" glass th= at >Leica created for it. = It is the first time that read that the Noctilux 1 is better than the 1,2= version. My understanding was that Leitz stopped the 1,2 only because of the production cost, but that the first version was better. But I have also to say that I have never read a comparative test of them.= Lucien BELGIUM