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Originally Posted by jackal
totally disagree. The noctilux can produce incredible pictures like few other lenses. Still life, portrait, landcsape, nightime, pretty much anything ...and its not soley because of F1. You just don't know how to use it properly or in an inspired creative way.
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And I'll totally disagree with you, in the situations you quote such as portrait & still life and not using f:/1.0 you can't use the lens properly. One has to compensate for shift of the focal plane to get acceptable results. If guessing the focal point by over or under adjusting the rangefinder patch is knowing how to use the lens properly I bow to your superior photography skills. To me it's guess work and compromise to use such a lens. I do agree however it can produce incredible effects in pictures but this is more to do with the rendering of uncorrected optical flaws which some like and others dislike to the same degree. The Noctilux is fairly unique in it's look to about f:/2.0 but there are many lenses of the same focal length display almost the same fingerprint from that point on. So from my opinion the Noctilux is ALL about the f:/1.0 to f/2.0 aperture range, there after it just becomes a pre Asph summilux or a summicron.
To argue that one does not appreciate a lens because they have no inspirational creativity shows shows a lack of understanding that your art is not everyone else's art. 9 times out of 10 it's the subject matter and composition that makes for a great image, the way a lens rendered it then becomes a subjective matter.