Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I´m contemplating about exchanging my old (1976) non-ASPH Summilux for the Ultron - does it make sense? All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Stephen Gandy <Stephen@CameraQuest.com> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 17. huhtikuuta 2000 21:33 Aihe: Re: [Leica] Nokton first impressions... and possibly last. >> >> << J Deadman writes: >> >> << Well, I guess I've shot around ten or twelve rolls with this lens now and >> ... it's a tough one. Most of the stuff I've shot has been family stuff >> which I don't like to put on the web, so it's hard to illustrate the points >> I'm about to make. >> >> First, the good things: it's as well made as my other Voigtlander lens (the >> 75, which I love to bits), it handles well, and for such a fast lens it >> behaves impeccably when shooting against the light. The focus throw is nice >> and snappy. As for sharpness, well, check out Erwin's figures. It's as sharp >> as I will ever need a lens to be. >> >> Are you detecting reservations? You sure are. >> >> There is something about this lens that I don't like. Frank Dernie said he >> didn't like the bokeh, and I agree. It's just... not right. If I had to give >> it a name it would be 'technical' or 'cold'. In a 1.4 lens this is a >> disaster. The 75 has great, chunky bokeh. >> >> The 50 is... smushy, but not in a good way. >> >> It's depressing to buy a lens (having shot some stuff with it in the shop >> and developed it) and then get the growing feeling, which I now have, that >> this is not a lens I can live with. I know others (BD, right?) like the >> Nokton, and in many respects I can see why. It's sharp, even wide open, it's >> flare-resistant, it's cute, the pictures it takes are really 'modern' >> looking (ie they look like current-generation lens shots). And it's cheap. >> But it's a definite case of the MTF charts and the price tage not telling >> the whole story. The 'character' of this lens is all wrong, IMHO. Sad, isn't >> it? >> >> Anyone want to buy one, near mint, boxed, etc? >> >> -- >> Johnny Deadman >> >