Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good advice, Henning. I sent my Noctilux to Don Goldberg to be adjusted. He didn't need my M8. Now the focus is perfect on both M8 bodies. No missed shots at all. I wouldn't give up my Noctilux for anything. I don't know anything about the other lenses that Don mentioned. Len On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Henning Wulff wrote: > At 9:35 AM -0500 1/29/09, Don Dory wrote: >> Stephen, >> No worries as all of your lenses will work fine excepting the >> Noct. From >> what I have read and from luggers out there, it is almost >> impossible to get >> the Noct to focus properly wide open even after adjusting the Noct >> to a >> specific M8 rangefinder. My personal belief is that the >> relatively large >> spherical aberation of the Noct means that there is only one point >> of sharp >> focus wide open so that unless you hit that point with your >> focusing patch >> the image doesn't work. This is not such bad news as you can >> achieve most >> of the look by using a Canon LTM 50 F1.4 which will largely give >> that lovely >> sharp unsharp look at 1.4. However, nothing works like the Noct >> to kill >> flare so if you do a lot of theater work probably your best choice >> is first >> the 50 ASPH followed by the Konica 60 1.2. >> > > > Don't listen to this. The Noct works fine on both my cameras; > probably better than it did on any film bodies that I have/had due > to the smaller sensor cutting the corners. I did send one body and > the lens to get adjusted in Solms last summer, but even before that > it was quite workable. Now it's dead on and easy. The 50 ASPH is an > outstanding lens, but it's not f/1 and the look is completely > different. > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information