Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] OT Nokton 40mm f1.4
From: heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)
Date: Tue Jan 30 14:26:41 2007

> Jeff le Kiwi
> 
> Difficult to answer your question. Which is the "real 35" for you? I for
> instance use the 35 asph Lux mostly since i have it - and the Nokton, my
> favourite lens before that purchase, is gathering dust - that's all i can 
> say.
> But the Nokton is better than it's reputation which is mostly reduced to
> "harsh bokeh", at least on this list. It has quite a few advantages, and 
> the
> bokeh is no issue when stopped down 1 stop only.


I just purchased a Nokton 1.4 for my M8 but I think I'm going to send it
back.

I don't like the bokeh and I'd rather have a 35 with proper framelines...

Here is a gallery from yesterday:

http://heninger.org/gallelry/nokton

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