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Subject: [Leica] Nokton 35/1.2 Lens, loose screws
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:02:03 +0000
References: <7auabm$2s8e61@pd3mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca>

Coming from you Ted, that sure is high praise!

Peter

Ted Grant wrote:
> Once again I'm catching up on the list.
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> The Nokton 35 f1.2 is a magnificent lens and I'd put mine up against any
> Leica lens, any day of the week you want to have a shoot out! On the M8 it
> is an amazingly crisp, as sharp cutting and in your face great image
> capturing lens as you'll ever find!
> 
>  
> 
> Hey I bought this as a match for my Noctilux when we started to shoot the
> book,  "Women in Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work." Unfortunately it
> didn't arrive until we were finished. But since then it's almost the lens 
> of
> choice with the M8 as it's as crisp as any lens could possibly be.
> 
>  
> 
> No I wont sell it to anybody! :-)
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> 
> I can't imagine anyone considering it a "poor man's Noctilux" Hell it's a
> hand in glove match twin with the Noctilux. Wide open or other wise! A few
> screws loose? Hell we've all got a few of those. So don't fault this lens
> because you found a couple. Simple answer? Either return it for another or
> buy a set of jewelers screw drivers, any photographer worth their salt has 
> a
> set of these in any event just in case. Tighten the screws and get snapping
> away!
> 
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> 
> There see how easy it is! :-)
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> Dr. ted. :-) 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Geoff
> Hopkinson
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:23 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Nokton 35/1.2 Lens, loose screws
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/lf/SF4.jpg.html
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> 2009/3/16 Barney Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com>
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>> Tina,
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> 
>> Thanks! I have been thinking about getting this lens and using it as a
> poor
> 
>> person's Noctilux but I wasn't about to admit it, even to myself,  for
> fear
> 
>> that I would get laughed off the LUG! :=)
> 
> 
>> Isn't it possible that your problem with the loose screws is a good old
> 
>> fashioned manufacturing defect? Perhaps when they made it - for what ever
> 
>> reason - they just tightened it enough so that it made it out of the
> factory
> 
>> but not tight enough to last?
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> 
>> Doesn't Dr. Ted shoot with a 35mm f 1.2 CV?
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>> Barney
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>> On Mar 15, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
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> 
>> Ken Carney wrote:
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> 
>>>> Tina,
> 
> 
>>>> Don't know about loose screws, but: do you deem this lens worthy of an
> 
>>>> M8?
> 
> 
>>> Yes, up until the screws fell out, I thought this was a great lens.  I've
> 
>>> been using it as a Noctilux substitute on the M8 since it is about a
> 50/1.2.
> 
>>>  Even after having my Noctilux coded and matched to my M8, I still
> couldn't
> 
>>> get it to focus like I could on the film Ms so I gave up and got the
> Nokton.
> 
>>>  It was probably my most used lens for a few months until the screw
> problem.
> 
>>>  I was really looking forward to taking it to Peru.  I'm sure I would
> have
> 
>>> used it a lot.  I also have the CV 12mm and used that often.  I have no
> 
>>> problem with the files from the CV lenses, only with the possible build
> 
>>> problems.
> 
>>> If I were you, I'd get the lenses I could afford for the M8 now and save
> 
>>> up for Leica lenses later, but I would never get a d700 or 5D instead of
> the
> 
>>> M8!  You would regret that in the long run.  I've never bought a Leica
> lens
> 
>>> that I regretted buying and I have regretted every Leica lens I've ever
> 
>>> sold.
> 
> 
>>> Good luck!
> 
> 
>>> Tina
> 
>>> www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
>>> _______________________________________________
> 
>>> Leica Users Group.
> 
>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> 
> 
> 
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>> _______________________________________________
> 
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> 
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Dr Peter Dzwig                          




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