Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1! Ain't that EVF great for that purpose?! (Is that what you meant by the OPV?) Sent from my iPad > On Mar 22, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information