Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/06

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Subject: [Leica] Screw the Nocti...
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 12:38:59 -0400 (EDT)
References: <D1478658.36E9E%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Quite honestly, I do not care.  I am just making an observation, that this 
lens was praised like it was the best lens ever made in that focal length a 
few years ago, and now all of a sudden it is a terrible lens.  But then the 
responses to my post from a few, say it is indeed a very good lens.  So lets 
drop this before it becomes another Nocti debacle.

Gene


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 11:39:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti...

Maybe  on this thing we should find the specs. The MTF graphs. And or some
reviews by people who sound like they may know what  they're talking about.
Instead of relying on capricious or even malicious chat group gossip.
I can speak for the finish of the lens a chrome version which looked top
Leica quality to me. If that accounts for much.


On 4/6/15 12:24 AM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Interesting.  i remember several years ago everyone was praising the 28 
> Chron.
> I wonder what has changed?
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 3:06:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti...
> 
> If I do street documentary, I would get a 28mm (again) for sure. I did most
> of my "Occupy" series with the 35 or 50mm, and I definitely would have
> loved a 28mm.
> 
> Fortunately, the 28mm Cron is the unloved Leica-child, so one can get it
> for around $2500 now. A bargain compares to the Nocti :-)
> 
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mark, I think you should go back a reread your books ;-)
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Rabiner
>> Sent: Monday, 6 April 2015 6:08 a.m.
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti...
>> 
>> Most of us and most photographers I've ever met unless they were just
>> starting out had both a 28 and a 24. Nobody ever didn't have either. That
>> would be crazy. Its always been a basic focal length. Its one of the frame
>> lines in M's since the M2 in 1957.
>> 
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> 
> 




-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
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