Paul J Posted January 14, 2014 Share #101 Posted January 14, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Paul, As I love low light photography and am off to South India in a couple of weeks, there will be lots of chances to use it. The bazaars and stalls after dusk, often only lit by oil/paraffin lamps or low wattage bulbs, are a perfect Nocti hunting ground. In addition, unlike my previous F1.0 Noctilux, the new one is not “a one trick pony” and at smaller apertures, is pretty much as good as an ASPH Summilux. In that it seems less prone to purple fringing, maybe occasionally better. Wilson Argh that sounds amazing, I agree it sounds perfect for the Noctilux - I want to be there! I agree with you on the lens, I love how it changes through out the entire aperture range, I find it sings at 2.8-4 and stopped down it's wonder stuff indeed. It has a wavy curvature which shows at times but bloody nora it's a miracle it is as flat as it is. I actually want the f1 as well. Maybe one day. Enjoy your trip! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thighslapper Posted January 14, 2014 Share #102 Posted January 14, 2014 Paul, As I love low light photography and am off to South India in a couple of weeks, there will be lots of chances to use it. The bazaars and stalls after dusk, often only lit by oil/paraffin lamps or low wattage bulbs, are a perfect Nocti hunting ground. In addition, unlike my previous F1.0 Noctilux, the new one is not “a one trick pony” and at smaller apertures, is pretty much as good as an ASPH Summilux. In that it seems less prone to purple fringing, maybe occasionally better. Wilson I have to agree .... and it often stays on my M for days on end ...... occasionally being displaced by my 75/2 .... (which I have now come to love since I adjusted my RF so it finally works reliably) ....... and the 21/3.4 which produces remarkable imagery. Nothing beats an M with great Leica lenses if they are all working properly and reliably ...... and nothing is a bigger pain in the arse when the aren't .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share #103 Posted January 14, 2014 I have had a message from our ever helpful oracle at Leica. Apparently they had no Noctiluxes in stock so could not offer me a replacement. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semi-ambivalent Posted January 14, 2014 Share #104 Posted January 14, 2014 This is most disturbing because response from Leica is more likely to decline than improve in 2014 What is it that makes you think this is the case? Could not a new factory also include new spaces for handling QC/CS issues? There's lots of chatter about new things in 2014. I would think QC/CS improvements are not excluded from possible "new things". Sure, easy for me to be positive; I've suffered no horror stories so far. But I'm positive none the less, and I haven't even been having coffee with Dr. Kaufmann. s-a Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share #105 Posted January 14, 2014 I do hope that they have got a lot of advice from professional production systems people for Wetzlar, because my feeling is that it is their systems that are failing or inadequate at present. Leica is very unlikely to have this expertise in house. It is only big companies like Siemens that would. Given Leica’s contacts in German industry, they should have been able to borrow somebody, who would do a few month’s secondment at Leica. It is my understanding that Leica is making a big effort to have their production facilities much cleaner and dust free in Wetzlar. I was always amazed that visitors were allowed to get as close to the production as they are at Solms and the workers are not wearing hats, slippers and/or gloves, like the assembly technicians were at the Kyocera Zeiss facility in Kyoto I went round about 12 years ago. I always had glass between me and the work stations at Kyocera and we still had to wear shower type hats and special dust free slippers. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted January 15, 2014 Share #106 Posted January 15, 2014 Wilson Have a good trip and let's see some nice images once you are back. I cannot remotely interest my wife to go to India what with all the gang rapes and what not going on over there recently. It's been 25-30 years since I was there and would love to give it a go again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted January 15, 2014 Share #107 Posted January 15, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) The classic howler a few years ago was when I sent my Digilux 2 in for a failing sensor. It came back after 10 weeks away, totally un-repaired with the shutter count having moved on precisely two shots. They had made the mistake of leaving their test SD card in the camera, so I looked to see what the photos were. They were of a “roll up” smouldering in an old tobacco tin on a workbench. Stuart Bean of H.A.Baker’s, my then local dealer and ex-Leica UK service manager, hit the roof and had a new Digilux 2 on its way to me direct from Solms, within a couple of days. Wilson So now I know why there have been so many screw ups at CS of late. I wonder if the tobacco was purchased in Colorado or Washington state in the US? Pot is legal in those places now. Or perhaps it was purchased in Amsterdam. So when a lens comes back with fogged elements we will now know what is on the glass. Just the thought of it revolts me. Talk about a clean environment. Yuk! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share #108 Posted January 15, 2014 Wilson I cannot remotely interest my wife to go to India what with all the gang rapes and what not going on over there recently. It's been 25-30 years since I was there and would love to give it a go again. Lou, Other than back packers in remote areas, tourists are probably safer than locals. The potential perpetrators know that if a tourist is targeted, the police wrath will drop on them from a great height. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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