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Subject: [Leica] [MUGers] Nocti questions
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:56:09 -0400
References: <C3B24BE3-4B0D-414C-99DC-FF5A1C0B70BC@bex.net> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9E6972A08@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org>

Thanks for the links and the personal perspective, John.
Light reading (no pun intended, but if I'd thought of that first, it would 
have been) ahead.

?howard

On Mar 22, 2014, at 5:01 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> I have both, if you are going to use f1.4 or smaller most of the time save 
> money and weight with the Summilux asph. The Noctilux does render slightly 
> differently but not enough so to pay the difference ;-)
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20110719222012/http://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/lenses/page29/nx095_1.html
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20110806015255/http://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/lenses/page150/page150.html
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> Just out of idle curiosity, or maybe not, I'd like to know if it's 
> possible to locate Erwin Puts' discussion of the 0.95 Nocti. I haven't 
> been able to find it online (inactive links). 
> 
> Has the Nocti been formally compared to the new APO-Summicron in terms of 
> general performance at the same apertures from f/2 on? Or is it better 
> compared to the 50 'lux from f/1.4 up?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -howard
> 
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Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] [MUGers] Nocti questions)
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Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] [MUGers] Nocti questions)