[Leica] For Sale: pristine Nocti .95 COMMENTS!

[Ted Grant]

HAPPY NOCTI-EASTER MORNING ALL!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

I realize most of us have all kinds of reasons for owning a Noctilux lens or
not. WHICHEVER VERSION? I've have had one (f1.0) and used extensively since
1970. Of course my KISS reason for having one originally was ? Because it
was the fastest lens at the time and manufactured here in Canada. Maybe a
touch of nationalism was influential. And at the time I was turning some
very interesting and well paying assignments.

All though never enough to pop $11,000! SORRY Sue having had your .095 in
hand and on my M8 if I had the income to pay the asking price of $11,000 I'd
of bought it and saved all this Nocti-babblefesting of the past weeks?

But if I were to purchase, my reason for buying it? Not for any of the optic
nerd reasons of so called "photographic qualities?" Heavens' "NO!" But
simply because? 

Only another photographer may or may not see the difference in a 16X20
print. Neither do clients give a flying hoop what lens or equipment you
use......... THEY ONLY WANT PHOTOS THAT SELL THEIR GOODS! 

My reason to buy it????????? SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S THE "FASTEST LENS
AVAILBLE!" :-) Now that alone is a "cool enough reason! :-) :-) 

See if you have the kind of income that buying things of extreme quality?
You buy things not for what they can do for you?  KISS? THEY JUST HAVE THE
INCOME TO BUY WHATEVER THEY WANT BECAUSE "IT'S THE FASTEST!"

And in the photo world " THEY BECOME THE COOL GUY WHO USES? OR AT LEAST OWNS
A .095 NOCTILUX LENS. EVEN IF THE ADMIRER HASN'T GOT A CLUE WHAT THE NOCTI
CAN DO? Other than believe you can shoot pictures in the dark!

So OK CREW my last post!

cheers,
Dr. ted

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Mark Rabiner
Sent: April-04-15 10:01 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] For Sale: pristine Nocti .95 COMMENTS!

I also have never had a client discus lenes with me that I can ever recall.
But his is the LUG and we are discussing Leica lenes.
Sometimes I run into other photographers and one of the things we discuss
over coffee or a beer is lenes. Or printing paper. Or cameras. Or locations.


On 4/4/15 8:15 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hey Gals and Guys!
> 
> In over 60 plus years of using Leica cameras of many versions and all
kinds
> of their lenses?  "I HAVE NEVER EVER IN ALL THOSE YEARS HAD A CLIENT/
PHOTO
> EDITOR (good, bad or horrid) And similarly the most severe of
> "PHOTO-EDITORS'" ever ever make any kind of "camera, lens used, quality of
> image in regard to lenses quality!' NEVER NEVER EVER EVER!
> 
> "STORY CONTENT, VISUAL IMPACT ALWAYS FRONT AND CENTER IS ALL THAT MATTERS!
> Well OK in their eyes! AND MOST CERTAINLY MINE!
> 
> And when these are the folks paying the invoice I do not discuss lenses,
> look, costs (well with Leica, you pretty well always had the best without
> thinking about all this "diddly squat" stuff you guys constantly get hung
up
> on?" Hell I don't even know, nor ever knew anything about this stuff
through
> all my years? Until I joined the LUG.   NOW/today? Usually I pass it all
up
> as it means "diddly-squat" to the image quality in my shoot!"  Yep and you
> guys, some of you will argue all you want!" NO COMMENT! :-) Buy my books
and
> see for yourself how well me and my Leica's are a dream team! ;-) Hey
don't
> get rattled we're just a cool team!   :-) :-)
> 
> Have I had heart palpitations since not understanding it? Or "studying
about
> it like crazy and testing to try all this stuff out to "SEE IF THE CONTENT
> WAS BETTER OR??" Making my photographs scream off the pages better?
> 
> "NOT ON YOUR SWEET LIFE!!!!! CERTAINLY WHEN YOU'VE BEEN USING A SYSTEM
THAT
> HAS GIVEN ME THE ASSGINMENTS,BOOKS. AND INTERNATIONAL NOTERITY MY KISS
> SIMPLE METHOD HAS DONE FOR OVER 60 years using my LEICA'S RIGHT OUT OF THE
> BOX BRAND NEW AND UNTESTED!! :-)
> 
> ok so now have a nice "technical weekend CREW!" :-)
> cheers,
> Dr. ted
> 
> 
> 
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