[Leica] : lots of Nocti .95 for sale

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Frank,
It all depends on how you define the word "bargain" - in relation to price,
or in relation to usefulness.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
wrote:

> My theory was that the recent ( last 5 years?) if the interest in the
> Nocti was by rich folk, that wanted THE most exclusive/extreme camera and
> lens.... The Noctilux plus an M9 or M(240).  After getting that combo, they
> figured out that most of their shots were not in focus.  Then came a period
> of "otherness"..... chasing the dream of some other combo of expensive
> thing, and the Nocti ran out of favor.....for maybe a Nikon D810 plus some
> lens or other, that actually made images that were IN focus ( thanks to AF,
> since these folk never did understand hot to manually focus anything).
>
> That accounts for the recent plethora of used 0.95 for sale at pretty
> bargain prices...
>
> Or so my thinking goes....
>
> Challenge?  Define THE challenge... the desire to have all your friends
> see you with the latest and greatest?
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>