luigi bertolotti Posted March 1, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted March 1, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Two threads on Noctilux! I do not enter the questions: like only to share my stupid story regarding the old Noctilux (f 1,2). In 1985 saw one on sale in Milano Italy: I was 28, single, still living in my family, a good job...BOUGHT IT: costly, but not exaggerate. Think I took no more than ten shots at 1,2, three or four just for test... my fastest lens at the time was a 1,5 Summarit SM; I was not Erwin Puts... in 20x25 prints seemed to me not so different from the Summarit at wide open....and found that is better focus at 1,5 and shot 1/15 than focus at 1,2 and shot 1/30, and that sometime you can use a 50 ASA instead of the beloved 25; I anyway decided to use IT as STANDARD lens, just for prestige, by Jove ! It was big, did not fit in the std. case of my M4...SO BETTER ! Imagined that at least someone would have said "WOW, A NOCTILUX! you really cool shooter!" Â It never happened... I tried everything to be noticed... two instances in 1989 sent KO my hopes : Â - Dolomites, evening in mountain hut: as always, put M4 with Noctilux upon the table... another mountaineer, with a sort of expert sight, looked at it with interest... and murmured me "...mmmmh, Leica...fine...what a strange big lens...is it Russian?" Â - Bavaria, motorbike trip, Schloss Linderhof : in the crowd at the entrance...two nice girls...ONE WITH A M2 ! with a gracious chrome Cron 35; approached instantly and made her the hyperstupid request: a picture of myself in front of the castle, taken with MY camera of course. I gave it to her, she gently cheered "mmm, you too..Leica...." I walked to the standard tourist position, strongly thinking to myself "damn, she CANNOT notice IT... something will happen..." I smiled, she shot (250 f8, still have the pict....),then gave back to me the M4, I said thanks crying in silent "stupid girl, don't you see it's a NOCTILUX !"...she went back to her group. Â Aftert this insult, shooted 3 o 4 normal pict...not wide open... back in Italy, sold it at a very good price, bought the Summilux 50 chrome I still have... I'll never be concerned with some lens with "Noct..." even feel uneasy when read something about Noktons... Â I excuse myself to take forum space for this kind of story... now I am 50, three daughters... still M4 and hope my M8 to arrive soon... if you like, next time I tell you the story on how i left falling on the road my BMW bike to save M4+Viso2+200 telyt in my hands.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 Hi luigi bertolotti, Take a look here Noctiluk again, a sad story. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
ho_co Posted March 2, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted March 2, 2007 Luigi-- I bet the girl who took your picture was just waiting for you to offer, "I'll show you my Noctilux if you'll show me yours..." Â No Noctilux here, but I was once in Mexico, proudly carrying my M5. A shop owner looked up smiling and said, "Nice camera!" Â I beamed. Finally someone had noticed! Â And then he continued, "Yashica, no?" Â Ah, the poor unwashed masses! Â --HC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ustein Posted March 2, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted March 2, 2007 Luigi, Â nice story. Too bad you gave up that early :-). Â Uwe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted March 2, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted March 2, 2007 Luigi, Â Great story. Very funny. We (me included) are so silly. We can't help ourselves. It's good to tell these stories. Â Thanks, Â Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caloso Posted March 2, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted March 2, 2007 I recently started using my noctilux on my m8. I try to be discrete but it always a surprise in San Francisco to have some euro trash tourist making a fool of himself of a piece of man jewelry on my neck. I am starting to want to go back to my digilux 2 just to avoid broken English conversations. I think we have to add an 11th commandment thou shall not......I think the masses have a better deal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan States Posted March 2, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted March 2, 2007 Hilarious because it's true! It's man-jewelry alright! I huffed one around for a while until I realized it was overkill...Nice for a time though. Â What's "eurotrash"? Do you guys have trailer parks over there? Do they drive pickup trucks and wear t-shirts without sleeves? Are they in my family? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4season Posted March 2, 2007 Share #7  Posted March 2, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Now what does this story remind me of...oh yeah, Mad Magazine, Oct 1978! Personally, I do not want anyone to take special note of my camera: I just want to them to think I'm an amateur taking snapshots with an older camera. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/17583-noctiluk-again-a-sad-story/?do=findComment&comment=187420'>More sharing options...
fernando_b Posted March 2, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted March 2, 2007 Luigi, where's the problem? YOU know it is a Noctilux! Fernando. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bernd Banken Posted March 2, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted March 2, 2007 35 years ago I liked very much mechanical wrist watches. So there was some background about brands and so on. Cut. Â During a birthday party held on a boat on the river Rhine a smart looking guy was sitting at my table and I was able to recognize his stainless steel watch. Conversation was going on and than I ran into the trap: "By the way your watch is very excellent, I like this Omega Speedmaster too." Â He stared at me and shouted: "Sorry Sir, but this is a Rolex Daytona. Paul Newman bla,bla." Â Since this time I'm a bit more careful with comments. Â Bernd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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