Have You seen the new 35/1.4 Nokton?

The weather gods are smiling on you today, Tom. As I sit in my office looking out at the fine spring-like weather and blue skies, I wish that I could spend the day out testing a new lens!
 
I am sure I will get one of the MC in the coming weeks, the question is, does the SC differ enough to justify the purchase of both?

Selling my 35 Cron 4th should fund both easily.
 
sockeyed said:
The weather gods are smiling on you today, Tom. As I sit in my office looking out at the fine spring-like weather and blue skies, I wish that I could spend the day out testing a new lens!
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My thoughts will be with you - briefly a I wonder in the sun! Took a walk on Jericho this morning too - filled with small,wet dogs with black mud extending 1/2 way up their legs. The owners were dumbfounded - but the "telepathic" dog communication worked and they all went for this smallish puddle of mud "en masse".
 
Tom A said:
My thoughts will be with you - briefly a I wonder in the sun! Took a walk on Jericho this morning too - filled with small,wet dogs with black mud extending 1/2 way up their legs. The owners were dumbfounded - but the "telepathic" dog communication worked and they all went for this smallish puddle of mud "en masse".
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Well, I hope you can circumstantiate that story? Maybe you have photos? Maybe taken with a 1.4/35 MC? 😀

Let us have a look (hope you have a good scanner...)
 
If anyone's seeking an alternative to 24 pages of GAS, ( 😀 ) you should check out the photo series on Reid Reviews titled "The Fisher Farm." It's a photo essay on a Vermont dairy farm with photos and interviews done by his ten-year old daughter using a humble Canon G2. Lovely, lovely stuff. 🙂
 
Just looked at the first roll of XX with the 35mm f1.4 SC. Film is still wet, but the contrast looks moderate and it does look plenty sharp! I shot it with a M2 and used two more M2's for "matching" shots with the Summilux 35mm f1.4 pre-Asph and a Nokton 40mm f1,4SC. Tomorrow I will venture to scan a sampling of the negs and also finish a couple of more rolls with the 35f1.4SC (as well as a roll with the 35/1.7VC and just for the hell of it, a Canon 35mm f1.8). Those would probably be for either Sunday or Monday scanning.
The lens is comfortable to use, like a slightly "shrunken" 40f1.4. Not as small as the Summilux 35. One bonus with the 35mm 1.4 SC will focus to 0,7 meters rather than the Summilux's 1 meter.
 
It is a very late 34xx xxx pre Asph Summilux. Tiny little bugger but very good. I have had that since new and it is a "blue-printed" lens from Midland. It will be interesting to see how the 35f1.4 SC fares against it. Negs look good. I hope to be able to run some Adox/Efke KB 14 over the weekend with these two lenses. If the weather is bad, I will have to shoot at f1,4 through out!
I did have a couple of the 35f1.4 Asphs but they had serious flare problem and I unloaded them.
 
Would anyone say that it performs like a pre-asph 35 Summicron from what they've seen? Or anything close? I'm very interested in getting it but It'll be my first wideangle and I'd like it to last.
 
It least the light-falloff is close to the pre-ASPH Summilux. Probably it's much better in backlite (less ghosting). But didn't have a picture seen yet.
 
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