[Leica] Nocti

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

Thanks, Marty. I appreciate the link and your personal experience.

?howard


On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:48 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just out of idle curiosity, or maybe not, I'd like to know if it's possible
>> to locate Erwin Puts' discussion of the 0.95 Nocti. I haven't been able to
>> find it online (inactive links).
> 
> 
> The internet wayback machine is your friend:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20130117141517/http://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/lenses/page29/nx095_1.html
> 
> Has the Nocti been formally compared to the new APO-Summicron in terms of
>> general performance at the same apertures from f/2 on? Or is it better
>> compared to the 50 'lux from f/1.4 up?
> 
> 
> I've tested all 3...
> 
> The 0.95 Nocti is slightly better corrected and has more resolution stopped
> down than the Summilux asph.  The APO-Summicron is better again in these
> regards.  What I noticed with the MM, however, is that the tonality gets
> worse along with the other factors improving and that the files need more
> work to make them look how I'd like them to look.  It's something of a
> quandry, because the the lenses whose native tonality I like best have lots
> of focus shift and tend to greatly under-resolve the sensor at the edges at
> low ISO.  But it does mean that I can use ISO5000 on the MM with an nd
> filter one the f1 Nocti or 75 Summilux in daylight.
> 
> Marty