Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] It's here
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:57:27 -0700

Beware of focus shift when stopping down when close in. I suspect that's why
it's a meter lens, and not a .7m.
Slobodan Dimitrov

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>From: feli2@earthlink.net
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] It's here
>Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 3:29 PM
>

> The Noctilux arrived today. I ended up buying it from a friend of a friend.
> Turns out he was a little
> confused. I had been expecting the current version with the collapsible
> hood, but it turns out that he
> had the last version of the one that takes the clip on hood, which is
> exactly what I was looking for in the first
> place. I guess it was the current version when he bought it...
>
> Anyhow, here it is. It's not exactly small, but it's not horrible.
> Proportionaly it looks a little like a Nikon SP with their 50/1.1
> mounted on it. It's got a good heft to it, kind of reminds me of my
> Summicron-DR, which is also pretty beefy for it's size.
>
> I'm putting a roll of APX100 through it, so we'll see what happens.
>
> Pretty damn neat.
>
>
> Feli
>
> 
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