Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/17
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Fred Rosenberg wrote:
> A few years ago I had the opportunity to buy a Noctilux. Spent a few days
> using it, exposed some film. I thought it was a piece of crap. The
> barrel, forget the hood, took out 25% of the viewfinder; it weighed three
> times the Summicron, took a vise-grip to focus and its clarity ("sharpness"
> is too generous a word) wide open, and two or three stops down, was dull
> and dumb. I kept looking around for Allan Funt.
Hi, Fred. They must have sold you a dud. Sounds like it was dropped. my Noctilux
focusses smooth and easy. Your unsharpness may also be from a bad knock. You my have
a bend optical axis somewhere in the lens.
> I find the LUG a hoot; a mixture of wit, wisdom, nonsense, knowledge,
> experience and a vicious sibling rivalry. God have mercy on the human race.
Just like real life. Great, isn't it?
Regards, Horst Schmidt
> Sincerely,
> Fred Rosenberg
>
> A life unexamined is not worth living. Socrates
> A life unlived is not worth examining. A.E. Neuman