Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/12

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Subject: Noctilux 50/1 versus 50/1,2
From: "Lucien_vD@compuserve.com" <Lucien_vD@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:16:47 -0400

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