Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/29

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Subject: [Leica] Lens compatibility
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu Jan 29 17:32:37 2009
References: <49811966.80707@nc.rr.com> <9b678e0901290635h667a0676lfbd35a39b06c78ee@mail.gmail.com> <p06230900c5a79acb015b@10.1.16.129> <BBACEFC7-C4EC-409B-B0D3-2B7ECF6D1523@cox.net>

I stand corrected.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:

>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
>  At 9:35 AM -0500 1/29/09, Don Dory wrote:
>>
>>> Stephen,
>>> No worries as all of your lenses will work fine excepting the Noct.  From
>>> what I have read and from luggers out there, it is almost impossible to
>>> get
>>> the Noct to focus properly wide open even after adjusting the Noct to a
>>> specific M8 rangefinder.  My personal belief is that the relatively large
>>> spherical aberation of the Noct means that there is only one point of
>>> sharp
>>> focus wide open so that unless you hit that point with your focusing
>>> patch
>>> the image doesn't work.  This is not such bad news as you can achieve
>>> most
>>> of the look by using a Canon LTM 50 F1.4 which will largely give that
>>> lovely
>>> sharp unsharp look at 1.4.  However, nothing works like the Noct to kill
>>> flare so if you do a lot of theater work probably your best choice is
>>> first
>>> the 50 ASPH followed by the Konica 60 1.2.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Don't listen to this. The Noct works fine on both my cameras; probably
>> better than it did on any film bodies that I have/had due to the smaller
>> sensor cutting the corners. I did send one body and the lens to get 
>> adjusted
>> in Solms last summer, but even before that it was quite workable. Now it's
>> dead on and easy. The 50 ASPH is an outstanding lens, but it's not f/1 and
>> the look is completely different.
>>
>
>
> likewise here... at f1 or out in AZ sunlight...works,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>>
>> --
>>
>>  *            Henning J. Wulff
>>  /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
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>>
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Don
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In reply to: Message from sacsai at nc.rr.com (Stephen Acsai) ([Leica] Lens compatibility)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Lens compatibility)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Lens compatibility)