Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > To the lucky ones who can afford $2500 on the new lens and want to have > it, congratulations (regardless of if you are a pro shooting all the > time at f:1.4 or just a guy who would take the same boring photos with > an $80 XA). I would like to own this lens (heck, I also would like to > have a Leica M7), even if my my Summarit or Summitar have never been > the limiting factors in my photography. > > Best regards, > > Juan Well now you have an option of a "high end" 50mm optic which is not a Noctilux. Or Noct a Noctilux. The Notar or what ever it is may "reportedly" perform better than than the Leica optic. It depends on where that "report" came from and in which context they were doing the shooting. The 40 year old designed Summilux stopped down one or two makes a killer image from what I hear. Most 50's are using designs which are a hundred years old as I just read in Erwins thing. It's HOW that design is implemented that counts. Obvious bells and whistles such as floating elements and ASPH glass and rare earth glasses are not always necessary. Leica could have come out with the best 50 1.4 in the business but it would have been less obvious if it cost less and didn?t have these assets. But they could have used even rarer glass and so on and had it cost more than a Noctilux. But that might have been a hard sell. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon New-improved http://rabinergroup.com/