Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't have the .95, but my 1.0 gives a unique look wide open that I don't get with the Summilux. Now that I can focus with the OPV, I am using the Noctilux more and more for it's unique look - wide open only. Tina On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > Howard, I seldom use my fast lenses wide open but I do value their good > behaviour regarding focus shift when stopped down a little as well as their > superb performance when I do my bit. > I'm contrarian I guess and not a good candidate for the older Noctis > especially. For perspective, if I could fund it/justify it and even find > one available I would ideally choose the new Summicron ASPH as the best of > all for me. Not slumming it with the Summilux though. > > I can comment that I was loaned the current Nocti and an M for a weekend > while my camera and lens were away for repair. For me and my styles the > Nocti M ASPH results just look like those from the Summilux M ASPH. That is > to say, superb but with no noticeable rendering differences for me. > > Handling that larger, heavier lens walking for street photography and for a > day in a studio was much less comfortable. I like and use the Thumbs Up > too which really helps but that's not possible when you have anything else > in the hot shoe. I had aching hands by the end of probably four hours or so > with camera actually in hand each day. Of course if you need or want that > 0.95 then the decision is simple ;-) > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/stvm > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/mvm > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 23 March 2014 07:56, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com