Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] noct performance
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:29:24 -0000

> So are you saying that it will produces images inferior to my
> zoom at smaller
> apertures?  That would be kind of disappointing in a $2800
> lens, but I suppose
> that it's possible, if the lens is very, very specialized.
>
>   -- Anthony
>
Fer God's sake, Anthony, you buy a Noctilux for one reason and one reason
only - you want to shoot in new light at f 1. You don't buy it because at
f5.6 it is or isn't as good as, or better than, a Nikkor zoom. Who cares how
it compares to any other lens, except at the maximum aperture?