Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/20
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> Look Stanislaw, don't be such an expert on things you don't own.
I already said tyhat I am not and answered just because no
Noctilux user steepped down from their glory and took a
slightest effort to answer Austin. So shame on you, not me...
> I, do own a Noctilux
> and have to say, there is so much uninformed talk about the
> shallow depth of field of this superb lens.
> Firstly, like any other lens, it is not always used at its full
> aperture.
So you say that Noctilux don't have shallow DOF wide open?
I don't understand you here - we are talking about it wide open...
> the exception. Most of the time, when I specially go out with
> the Noctilux, I seldom go larger than f2. Even so, the depth of
> field at a close distance at f2 for example, (the largest
> opening of a Summicron) is small too, nobody ever seems to
> complain, that their Summicron is hard to focus.
I will repeat again (and again, till you understand or I die):
You can use and focus Noctilux accurately on nearly any M.
Issue is: do M3 focus it better than M6. I think so, but
I am not sure as I don't have a way to test it :)...
Rest of your letter is off topic, unfortunately :-(
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