Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/25

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Subject: [Leica] Help with Nocti
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:06:09 +1030
References: <4F1E99DB.7020500@whitedogs.co.uk> <CB440BE5.196E5%mark@rabinergroup.com> <CABmfTOUzVQ7jhwyAaFNoukB2OFuUFXcr1xMXtomMgGHNtCy-UA@mail.gmail.com> <B9E0753B-CD66-47DF-AA35-E40929162DE6@archiphoto.com>
 
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> 
wrote:
> Learn to love your aberrations and other shortcomings.

This is the best thing I have read on lenses, here or anywhere.  It's
what I was trying to say above.  There are millions of them, all
lenses are loaded with them, but I am inadequately eloquent to have
said this.

> I can live with Nocti f/1 faults often enough that the positive points 
> outweigh them in the long haul. That's about it.

Me too.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Noctilux/

Marty
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