I need to ask a small favour:

[Goodyear]

Stop with the Noctilux pics, please!

You're all a bad influence on me...

 

[jaapv]

Would you prefer Summilux 75, Mark?😛

 

[jaapv]

Oh yes- that too. And the 24 asph....

 

[Goodyear]

You are both very funny.

 

[dcsang]

That's what got me into the 35mm Nokton.
Stupid people here posting images at f1.2 saying how sharp it is wide open and how good it is for low light...

I feel your pain Mark.. 😉

Dave

 

[jaapv]

Well, to compensate for stepping on your soul, I voted for your Big. (I would have anyway, I liked it🙂)

 

[SolaresLarrave]

I was, and to a certain extent stay, immune to the siren song of the Noctilux. The toughest test was a photo in a Leica book by a Cuban photographer: girls looking at a painting in an art museum in Miami. It had a beautiful, dreamy quality, while preserving a particular sharpness around a very shallow DOF.

Yep, it was a Noctilux shot.

However, if you manage to find a photo of a Leica with a Noctilux attached, that'll put you off the scent like it did to me: it looks everything but stealth or light! 😱

That's how I cured myself from the Noctilust (*grins and runs to buy lottery tickets*)... 😉

 

[venchka]

That's what got me into the 35mm Nokton.
Stupid people here posting images at f1.2 saying how sharp it is wide open and how good it is for low light...

I feel your pain Mark.. 😉

Dave

Well? Is it? How bad is the viewfinder blockage? The Nokton would be less painful than a new or near new 35mm 'cron ASPH.

Speaking of the Noctilux. 😀 I recall reading that the Noctilux balances very nicely on an M5.

I wonder if the same applies to the Nokton Beast?

That wasn't painful was it?

 

[Sparrow]

That's what got me into the 35mm Nokton.
Stupid people here posting images at f1.2 saying how sharp it is wide open and how good it is for low light...

I feel your pain Mark.. 😉

Dave

NOW YOU'RE DOING IT



PS. how sharp is it??

 

[rover]

I went to bed last night, for the first time, convinced that I need to buy a black ZI and ZM 50 Sonnar.

I was doing pretty good avoiding the ZI GAS before yesterday.

 

[dcsang]

Ok.. I'll have to find some f1.2 nokton shots and post them. But I won't do it in Mark's thread 🙂 I'll do it in another thread - mind you, I'm not at home now but it's going to take me a bit to find them.

I can, though, attest to the sharpness wide open and to any detractors of Cosina-Voigtlander's ability to create lenses with pleasing bokeh. Because wide open at f1.2, the 35mm Nokton has very pleasing OOF areas. More so than their 40mm f1.4 Nokton.

Dave

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Ralph,

So, you were evading ZI GAS, and that's how you found yourself the new owner of a 50mm Elmar lens? 🙂

I saw it, I liked it, but you saw it first...

 

[Sparrow]

Ok.. I'll have to find some f1.2 nokton shots and post them. But I won't do it in Mark's thread 🙂 I'll do it in another thread - mind you, I'm not at home now but it's going to take me a bit to find them.

I can, though, attest to the sharpness wide open and to any detractors of Cosina-Voigtlander's ability to create lenses with pleasing bokeh. Because wide open at f1.2, the 35mm Nokton has very pleasing OOF areas. More so than their 40mm f1.4 Nokton.

Dave

****! I knew you were going to say that

I don’t suppose anybody’s had both the Noctilux and the 35mm Nocton and can offer the opinion that I don’t need either of them??

 

[rover]

Ralph,

So, you were evading ZI GAS, and that's how you found yourself the new owner of a 50mm Elmar lens? 🙂

I saw it, I liked it, but you saw it first...

No, someone beat me to the Elmar. That was just a good opportunity. The ZI is a big investment, I have GAS, but need to figure out if I have the funds to match it.

 

[Goodyear]

Well, to compensate for stepping on your soul, I voted for your Big. (I would have anyway, I liked it🙂)

Thanks 🙂

Up until recently my interest in the Noctilux was limited to the 'cool because of what it is' variety, but lately I keep seeing some very intriguing images from it.

But the price puts it well beyond anything I'll ever buy, unless there's a lottery win coming up - in which case I will have one, and probably an M8 to mount it on 😀

In the meantime I'm saving for a CV 40/1.4 - I'm not against its bokeh, and it is 1/7th the price from Robert White!

 

[SolaresLarrave]

No, someone beat me to the Elmar. That was just a good opportunity. The ZI is a big investment, I have GAS, but need to figure out if I have the funds to match it.

Darn! I was about to congratulate you on the catch. The price was very nice, and the lens has a good rep.

Why are you interested on the ZI? Just wondering...