Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Has anyone compared images from the Noctilux vs. the Summilux at f1.4? > Surely Irwin must have done some comparison of image quality, or > one of the other venerable people on this list who have in the past done > lens comparisons. Think I'll go check his website. I don't mean in terms of resolution and contrast, so much, but in terms of that dreamy signature that the Noct has... hard to put a term to it. I think it has much to do with the bokeh, though, and the way it pulls details out of shadows. I wonder if the Lux can match it there. I've seen some of the same characteristics from my 75 summilux. I love this lens for that reason. But it's nothing that would show up on Erwin's site. I'm not sure it can be measured in any objective, quantifiable way. But it can be demonstrated. Here a picture is truly worth a thousand words. Dan