Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] OT Nokton 40mm f1.4
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue Jan 30 14:35:42 2007

That's pretty crappy spelling in your URL.

I thought the bokeh looked okay. Nothing distracting. Which 35 are you 
thinking about?
--
Jeffery

---- Wade Heninger <heninger@adobe.com> wrote: 
> > Jeff le Kiwi
> > 
> > Difficult to answer your question. Which is the "real 35" for you? I for
> > instance use the 35 asph Lux mostly since i have it - and the Nokton, my
> > favourite lens before that purchase, is gathering dust - that's all i 
> > can say.
> > But the Nokton is better than it's reputation which is mostly reduced to
> > "harsh bokeh", at least on this list. It has quite a few advantages, and 
> > the
> > bokeh is no issue when stopped down 1 stop only.
> 
> 
> I just purchased a Nokton 1.4 for my M8 but I think I'm going to send it
> back.
> 
> I don't like the bokeh and I'd rather have a 35 with proper framelines...
> 
> Here is a gallery from yesterday:
> 
> http://heninger.org/gallelry/nokton
> 
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