[Leica] How much for a Nocti

[cummer at netvigator.com (Howard Cummer)]

Hello Mark,
Some bystander colour on your Nocti story:
The person on the bus with the 1.2 Nocti is Erik  - a Master Brewer  
from Denmark - he has built or helped improve breweries all over the  
world including Tsing Tao in China. He has two Nocti 1.2's - the user  
one which you and I saw - as well as a collector condition one at  
home. When he came home from each of his offshore assignments he  
would treat himself to a new piece of Leica equipment. He told me he  
has never sold any of it. It was interesting that when Ralph  
Hagenauer saw Erik's lens with a filter on it - he told Erik to take  
it off. Erik asked Ralph if he got a scratch on the front element  
could it be repaired. Ralph said the front element coating was very  
hard. Erik replied - "with such an answer I think I will keep on the  
filter."
Cheers
Howard (in Hot Hong Kong)
On 27 Oct 2006, at 12:23 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

>
> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:51:57 -0400
> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] How much for a Nocti?
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> On 10/26/06 2:47 AM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com>  
> typed:
>> The 1.2 Noct is a pure collector's item. And Schouten is in the  
>> same price
>> region like the other one who sells the 43mm Pentax.
>> D.
> I saw someone using one in Germany in the LHSA bus a few weeks ago.
> First time I saw one in person. Held it in my hand. And so on.
> I recall some of us seemed to have talked our famous guest host  
> speaker Jim
> Marshall out of getting one at the LHSA meeting in San Antonio  
> having read
> all the test reports. We had ten good reasons why it was a bad move.
> But the 1.2 Noct  has a few things going for it.
> Its like a Summilux in steroids. Size wise.
> Its not all that big.
> Halfway perhaps between a Summilux and a regular modern f1 Noct.
> Its  a gorgeous lens. Balances wonderfully and silky smooth.
>> From a historical perceptive (which always affects my 2 point  
>> perceptive)
> its the firth Leica or maybe ANY with an ASPH element in it.
> It may not cost all that much in scheme of things they can be  
> gotten for not
> all that much more than a regular Noct. Maybe.
> And just how bad is the image quality going to be? I'd just not  
> charge extra
> fro the "fingerprint".
> The guy on the bus who was using one said when they f1 came out the  
> camera
> store had three f1.2's in there being sold for 500 bucks each!
> Think if you scooped those up for a grand and a half.
> You'd be living in a country mansion. With Charles Manson.
> Maybe Mr. Marshall was smart enough to have just gone ahead and  
> gotten one
> anyway. Ignoring our "expert" optical advice.
>
> Mark Rabiner