Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25

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Subject: [Leica] Did Canon do the first Noctilux?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Fri Apr 25 12:06:17 2008
References: <4811EC20.7080003@waltjohnson.com> <200804251453.m3PErDcr003199@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
At 10:42 AM -0400 4/25/08, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 10:35 AM 4/25/2008, Walt Johnson wrote:
>>If I recall the exchange at Danang was selling Canon rangefinders with
>>the F 0.95 lens in 1966. Perhaps they predated the Nocti? After 40 odd
>>years I still remember it to be unwieldy.
>
>Yes, the f/0.95 Canon lens predated the first version of the 
>Noctilux by five years or so.  The Canon lens was a phenomenal lens 
>for its time but was rather soft at wider apertures.
>
>Marc


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