Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, the Noctilux is actually very small for a f1.0 lens, the only other (admitedly for SLR so the requirement not to block the viewfinder is not there :-) )is much bigger and heavier and was, until discontinued, much more expensive (in the UK anyway). The downside of the Noctilux being so small is severe vignetting wide open which is a reasonable compromise given the likely circumstance of shootin at f1. Frank --- Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Yes out there now are 50's with asph's and floating > elements. > And they sell of course for a few hundred bucks not > being Leica glass or > Zeiss or Schneider or Rodenstock. > > Part of this is Leica deciding that their 50 1.4 as > now in their R system > should be a high end high tech lens with floating > ASPH elements and amazing > coatings and so on. A set of sky high parameters. > > This could backfire in the respect that it's like > "how good is the coffee" > being who one judges the joint. > One peruses a system and checks out the 50 1.4. > Two and a half grand? > THAT system is out of my league. > But it's also clearly the BEST 50 1.4. > So you know when you get into that league what you > are getting yourself > inform. > > Perhaps the way to have gone would have been to > redesign the Noctilux with > asph's making is lighter and cheaper an a little bit > more to what having an > M system is potentially all about. > > And fine tune the 50 Summicron optic. > Which as far as I go is the Kodachrome 64 of the > Leica system. > And make the lens shade click out able. > Which I'm sure they'll do in a year anyway. > THAT should be the benchmark. > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > > > > New-improved > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information