Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/30

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Subject: [Leica] WTB : Noctilux (UK)
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sat Dec 30 14:42:16 2006
References: <C1BC5379.100AC%eric.calderwood@btinternet.com>, <9b678e0612301301k654a4386sd10f6b065d7725a4@mail.gmail.com>, <09E391CD9CDD50923DAB2C6B@hindolveston.reid.org>

Quoth the Brian Reid :

> Yeah, I followed that thread and so I borrowed a Nokton from a
> friend and tried it. I can't live with the way it jams when you
> focus to infinity, as has been reported here. Since it was a
> borrowed lens I didn't want to keep testing it, but it really
> wedges when you turn it to the far end of the focus spectum. 

Just as a matter of interest, does it lock up on film bodies as well, 
or is it just an incompatibility with the M8?  I've been thinking 
about that lens, but won't be going to an m8 any time soon for all 
the u$ual rea$on$...

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Replies: Reply from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] WTB : Noctilux (UK))
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