Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/05

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Subject: [Leica] 50/1.1 Nokton
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:43:51 +0530
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Jeffrey,
Super stuff - but my eyes will not be upto focusing at f1.1!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had the opportunity to take some photos with the M8 and 50/1.1 Nokton.
> This is one incredible lens for the price. If any of you have lusted for a
> Noctilux but could not afford it, I can highly recommend the Nokton. Here
> are some shots from it his weekend. About 15 of my 1968 high school
> graduating class try to get together each summer. We had an evening patio
> get-together this weekend in San Diego. I shot _most _of these at f/1.1, 
> and
> I didn't tweak them other than using a green filter in Photoshop to 
> increase
> the contrast on a few males.
>
> http://www.400tx.com/files/Hilltop/1.html
>
> They didn't need sharpening. This is a very sharp lens wide open.
>
> Jeffery
>
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In reply to: Message from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] WSJ photo)
Message from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] 50/1.1 Nokton)