Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beware of focus shift when stopping down when close in. I suspect that's why it's a meter lens, and not a .7m. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: feli2@earthlink.net >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] It's here >Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 3:29 PM > > The Noctilux arrived today. I ended up buying it from a friend of a friend. > Turns out he was a little > confused. I had been expecting the current version with the collapsible > hood, but it turns out that he > had the last version of the one that takes the clip on hood, which is > exactly what I was looking for in the first > place. I guess it was the current version when he bought it... > > Anyhow, here it is. It's not exactly small, but it's not horrible. > Proportionaly it looks a little like a Nikon SP with their 50/1.1 > mounted on it. It's got a good heft to it, kind of reminds me of my > Summicron-DR, which is also pretty beefy for it's size. > > I'm putting a roll of APX100 through it, so we'll see what happens. > > Pretty damn neat. > > > Feli > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html