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

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Subject: [Leica] Did Canon do the first Noctilux?
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri Apr 25 08:09:04 2008
References: <4811EC20.7080003@waltjohnson.com>
 
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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