Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/24/07 10:57 PM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> typed: > Or an opportunity to redesign the Noct. Aspherics have become a lot > cheaper > to machine and the focus shift is almost all due to spherical aberration. > Now that Noct's are not being made in Canada anymore I suspect that a new > design will be forthcoming. Say a 35 F1 or maybe a 40. > > On 4/24/07, Tom Schofield <tomschofield@comcast.net> wrote: >> > That the Noctilux will have to be redesigned to make up for the precision flatness of the M8 focal plane I putting my money in the NO THIS IS BALONEY category. I think this is becoming wildly overblown and the Noct. as it stands now will turn out to be totally useful as ever if not more so on the M8 than on film cameras. A LOT of shots in the common vernacular will be produced with this lens on digital cameras. They will be all over the place. Covers of magazines. Galleries. You name it. Mark my Rab-words. Its a 75mm f1. !!! And you don't even have to worry about the edges. Keep in mind its a lens designed for shooting dark alleys. But is also designed to be usable outstandingly in a brightly let field. I've done so. And I've also missed my focus an amazingly few times with it. It just works. Mark Rabiner 8A/109s New York, NY markrabiner.com