Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/28

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Subject: [Leica] Nokton 35mm F1.4 WAS 40MM NOW NOKTON 1.2 35MM
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:07:33 -0700
References: <001401cd0c6b$02de00b0$089a0210$@earthlink.net> <AA13FFFB-4408-4C2A-8CE1-600E3524E82E@frozenlight.eu> <3A26E064C6D042D39B54F2E7ED94BA1A@syneticfeba505> <015301cd0d3f$c5abe510$5103af30$@earthlink.net>

I had both and found the 1.2 lovely but anti Leica-eqsue. Seemed huge on M's
On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:

> The F1.2 lens is 1/3 of a stop faster than an F1.4 lens.  I have an F1.4
> lens (that needs mating to my M8 body).
> 
> Marginal improvement.  Not worth $1K.
> 
> YMMV
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at earthlink.net
> 
>> Get the f1.2 35mm instead.<<<<<<<<<
> 
> 
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