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Subject: [Leica] Anybody use the 1.5/50mm Nokton on an M8?
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Mon Dec 8 00:45:05 2008
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do take a look@ the ziess planer 50/2.0 prices on ebay are real good,

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> Thanks to Henning, Jim and Gene for the feedback. It appears that the
> things I disliked about the Nokton on film will also affect it on the M8
> sensor, so I will pass on it and hunt for a second-hand Summilux instead.
>
> Nathan
>
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> On Dec 7, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
>  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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