[Leica] Anybody use the 1.5/50mm Nokton on an M8?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 8:18 AM +0100 12/7/08, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>My M8 is arriving on Tuesday, and I have my standard lens already, a 
>35mm Summarit. On the wide end, the 18mm Zeiss is in the hands of 
>John Milich. All well and good. But I also need a fast 50mm lens 
>(doesn't everyone?). When I was using film M's, I tried the 1.5/50mm 
>Nokton. The lens was nice and sharp but the bokeh was so ugly that I 
>sold it and got a Summilux instead. Now I wonder if the out-of-focus 
>rendition is different/better on an M8? From a price-performance 
>point of view this lens cannot be beaten, but I intend to shoot it a 
>lot at f1.5 (otherwise, what's the point of buying a fast lens?) and 
>that implies large areas that are out of focus, which in turn makes 
>bokeh somewhat important.
>
>So if anyone has experience with the M8+Nokton combination, I would 
>love to hear from them.
>
>Nathan
>
>Nathan Wajsman
>Alicante, Spain


No better on an M8.

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