Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/27
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on 28/9/00 12:43 AM, Lucien at director@ubi.edu wrote:
> The previous Noctilux 50mm f1,2 (1966-1975) had an
> aspherical surface.
> Between 1.500 and 2.000 made.
>
> Comparison with the current 50/1 at the end of the following page.
FWIW I have owned both. The (mint) 1.2 looks nicer but is more like a less
sharp, much heavier Summilux without so practical way of putting on lens
caps. Believe me, with a lens that valuable you will want to use lens caps.
Contrast was very good but sharpness rather poor until stopped way down.
This was as mentioned a mint example and had been CLA'ed by Leica. My 1.0
vignettes a lot more but is sharper. Seems to have more coma or haziness
wide open though. I never found a useful application for the 1.2 over the
Summilux: the extra half stop was just not useful at the expense of
sharpness.
I bought it very cheap and sold it for a lot of money with which I got a new
Canon 300/2.8 for my EOS which though less lovely as an object was more
useful to me...
The 1.0 Noctilux is really terrific but does not match the focussing cams of
all my Ms (even those that work fine with more demanding lenses, for
focussing accuracy, such as the 135 or 90/2): still a mystery to me why some
lenses work perfectly with some cameras and not with others and there is
little consistency.
Hmm
Rs
Adrian
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