Leica 75mm f/1.25 Noctilux

[Pioneer]

You will have to lock your portrait subject in a neck vise to keep them from moving while you focus your camera. 😀

 

[ptpdprinter]

I don't see the attraction of using 75/90/135 lenses on a rangefinder camera. You are essentially using the equivalent of the SLR microprism to focus and frame. I have always seen rangefinder cameras as best for 28/35/50 lenses. Using one viewfinder to focus and another to frame with lenses wider than 28 also seems a real kludge. How can you possibly work quickly?

 

[raid]

When you already own a Ferarri, a new Maserati looks tempting.
I do not own a Ferrari :{( (that was a moustache)

 

[Corran]

Hmm what to choose, a good used car or constant frustration due to misfocusing this ridiculous chunk of glass...

 

[brennanphotoguy]

This is my argument as well, you can buy an M10 and 75mm Summilux for the same price as this lens. And yeah, this is why I said that this is probably more for SL users (or EVF users in general) since they can use focus peaking and focus it a lot easier.

 

[daveleo]

Don't I envy people who can throw $13,000 at a camera lens.

Imagine the cars they drive, the homes they live in, the shoes they wear.

 

[x-ray]

Let the dumping of the Summiluxes begin.

No interest in selling my Summilux. It's one of my favorite lenses. What's the difference in 1.4 and 1.25? 1/3 stop.

I bought a 50 1.2 noctilux not long after they came out. I wound up trading it a year or so later because it wasn't that good down from f4. When you think about it the price was insane for 1/3 stop over the 1.4 Summilux. Yes it's only 1/3 stop. I can't remember the price difference now but the 1.4 would have been a better choice.

 

[x-ray]

Users of the Summilux 75/1.4 already report online how difficult itis to focus this lens. Now, make the max aperture even larger, and have fun trying to challenge your eye sight!

I use my 75 summilux mostly on my .85x MP and haven't had any problems focusing. I've also used my M3 with it and approximated the crop from the 50 frame. It works just fine and focuses easily.

 

[raid]

I manage it too .

 

[Archlich]

The diagram shows an awesome hunk of glasses squeezed into the already large barrel. Quite satisfying to look at...

...meanwhile I can make do with the lowly Canon FD 85/1.2L Aspherical.

 

[Huss]

40mm Voigt f/1.2 is calling...saves $12,000. 🙂

7Artisans 50 1.1 calls louder. Faster, longer and saves $12,400!

😉

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I don't see the attraction of using 75/90/135 lenses on a rangefinder camera. You are essentially using the equivalent of the SLR microprism to focus and frame. I have always seen rangefinder cameras as best for 28/35/50 lenses. Using one viewfinder to focus and another to frame with lenses wider than 28 also seems a real kludge. How can you possibly work quickly?

75 is close to 50mm. At least in my M-E VF those coupled frames driving me nuts. So freaking close and cluttered. Very misleading for quick work.

I didn't find use for 90mm at all in portraits, just tele for distance with limiting, flat, formal, for passport like perspective. 75mm is better for just portraits IMO, still could be used quick and on-field. But it doesn't need to be fast and brick for it. Summarit 75 will do.

 

[TennesseJones]

Forgive me Brennan, I think you didn't understand. I wasn't asking you for clarification.

I was questioning the wisdom of releasing a lens in a mount that was the less optimal of two for actually focusing it.

Let me help you with that.

 

[x-ray]

Looking at the diagram, that's an awesome hunk of glasses squeezed into the already large barrel. Quite satisfying to look at...

...meanwhile I can make do with the lowly Canon FD 85/1.2L Aspherical.

I had the 85 1.2 L for the EOS and if the FD is the same glass it's up there with the best of the best even at 1.2. I'd even go so far as to say the 85 1.2 performs better at 1.2 than the Summilux 75 at 1.4.

 

[TennesseJones]

But many thanks for introducing me to this google website.
There's a whole world out there!

Let me help you with that.

 

[Huss]

But many thanks for introducing me to this google website.
There's a whole world out there!

Yeah it's crazy, it's like living in a loop!

https://www.google.com/search?q=leica+75+1.25+rangefinderforum&oq=leica+75+1.25+rangefinderforum&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3.11981j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

 

[brennanphotoguy]

Forgive me Brennan, I think you didn't understand. I wasn't asking you for clarification.

I was questioning the wisdom of releasing a lens in a mount that was the less optimal of two for actually focusing it.

Because there are people who will want to use this on an M of some kind and you can adapt M to anything mirrorless. That opens their market up even further than a proprietary mount on their SL.

 

[peterm1]

New Leica Lens - 75mm f1.25

New Leica Lens - 75mm f1.25

Found this morning on a Leica M8/8.2 Facebook page.

http://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/…/leica-announces-noctilux-m-7…

And also here - more info with pictures. Its a beast as you might expect, weighing over 1kg.

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/leica-announces-noctilux-m-75mm-f125.html

 

[noisycheese]

$12,795 / £10,250 / €11,900

Leica just threw another log on the fires of Leica hate that burn in the bellies of the small minded; good for them! 😀

 

[ptpdprinter]

Leica just threw another log on the fires of Leica hate that burn in the bellies of the small minded; good for them! 😀

Really? That's your takeaway?