Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/05

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Subject: [Leica] Noct vs 50 'lux
From: "Rodgers, David" <david.rodgers@xo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:04:29 -0500

Steve,

You echo what I got from reading Erwin's newsletter. The Noct is on a
pedestal. And rightly so as an f1 lens. At all other apertures the pedestal
should be no higher than the Summilux. In fact, maybe it should be a a tad
lower. 

Dave

- -----Original Message-----
From: Steve LeHuray [mailto:icommag@toad.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:16 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's picture of Week 35


> Well, before we place the Summilux 50 on two high a pedestal, let's
> remember that Erwin also rates the Cosina 50 1.5 as sharper than the
> Summilux...;-)

B.D.

I am not going to argue with you on that point for the reason that all these
subtleties with different lens are way over my head, except of all the 50s I
have used the 50/1.4 seems to please me the most. So, I am not knocking the
Noctilux or the Cosina, just making a comment I saw in Erwin's newsletter
about the Noct which is on a pedestal far more than the Summilux will ever
be.

sl
>
>
>
> Steve LeHuray wrote:
>>
>> >><Snip>
>> >>
>> >> BTW, did anybody notice in Erwin's Newsletter today, he ranks the
Summilux
>> >> 50/1.4 better than the Noctilux under all circumstances.
>> >>
>> >> sl
>> >
>> > I think the Noctilux might still win out at F1!
>> >
>> > but I'd be surprised Erwin saying the Summilux beating out the Noctilux
in
>> stray
>> > artifacts from off camera and on camera light sources as this was what
the
>> > Noctilux was specifically designed to do as a low light night lens
while
the
>> > Summilux was of course designed for general purposes.
>> >
>> >
>> > Mark Rabiner
>> >
>> > Portland, Oregon
>> > USA
>> >
>> > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
>> >
>> Maybe, except at 1.4 you can say go from a 60th to a 30th to get the same
>> shot the Noct gets at 1.0, and 1.4 is better than 1.0.
>>
>> sl
>

Replies: Reply from "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> (Re: [Leica] Noct vs 50 'lux)