Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]again - you already posted this. Maybe you got the 'magic noctilux' But it just ain't so. Check out the leica forum. On 4/25/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >