Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] NOCTILUX-M f/1/50 mm
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 04:35:07 -0500

> I think that many on the LUG overrate it's 
> utility to a really ridiculous degree. I don't believe for a second that
> members of this list would even consider as an all purpose 50 mm lens a
> lens that causes quite visible vignetting, has really weird bokeh - go
> back and look at those color shots of Rei's - marginal depth of field,
> is COMPARATIVELY to other Leica lenses, heavy as a truck and just as
> wide as a truck, and intrudes so into the viewfinder. No way. And if
> Nikon made an all purpose 50 that did any of those things you guys would
> be laughing your rears off making fun of it.
>
> So...Praise the Noctilux for what it is - the finest available darkness
> lens available. Period. It doesn't need to be more than that. And it
> isn't more than that.
>
> Cheers
>
> B. D.
>

B.D.

The Noctilux is like Mt Everest. People climb it 'because it is there' same
thing with the Noctilux.

sl
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