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How is the Noctilux on the SL?


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Love this combo. Very easy and quick to focus, and it balances well on the SL.

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Compared to using it on a M it's very very easy the magnifier makes it very simple to nail focus

 

 

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I agree with Neil, I just got my adapter and put my Noctilux on it to do some testing when I came in and saw this thread. Here is one of my quick DUMB test shots of a rare frog on our back deck!!!!!! It is easy to focus on the SL and well balanced.

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I am using the Noctilux f/1 (E60) on the SL and I love it. Great IQ, and extremely easy to focus and compose thanks to the focus magnification feature of the SL. I'd say much easier to focus it precisely than on any M (excluding live view on the M 240). You can see a gallery all shot with it wide open at f/1 here:

 

https://vieribottazzini.com/2016/11/buranoscapes-burano.html

 

Hope this helps, best

 

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Noctilux on the SL

 

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It's working great on the SL. So I use it again in bad light, but its usefulness is limited.

And I think that for portrait a 90mm or longer lens is much more desirable.

While for landscape a Summicron 50 is much more reasonable.

 

The bokeh is ok, at a very high price. But many 90mm, 135mm and 180mm have actually an even nicer bokeh. I also find the proportions of the faces often better with more distance. And the intensive play with out of focus highlights is often just shifting attention away from the main thing - the portrait.

That is also the problem with the Summilux-SL 50. It is close to perfection - probably the best 50mm for the SL - but it is only one more 50mm. (Have already 2 R and 3 M and many here have probably even more 50mm lenses   ;) ).

I think the next lenses (75mm and 90mm) will be much more interesting. And also the 16-35.

 

:D Just trying to see things in a "sober" way, right before silvester.

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It's working great on the SL. So I use it again in bad light, but its usefulness is limited.

And I think that for portrait a 90mm or longer lens is much more desirable.

While for landscape a Summicron 50 is much more reasonable.

 

The bokeh is ok, at a very high price. But many 90mm, 135mm and 180mm have actually an even nicer bokeh. I also find the proportions of the faces often better with more distance. And the intensive play with out of focus highlights is often just shifting attention away from the main thing - the portrait.

That is also the problem with the Summilux-SL 50. It is close to perfection - probably the best 50mm for the SL - but it is only one more 50mm. (Have already 2 R and 3 M and many here have probably even more 50mm lenses   ;) ).

I think the next lenses (75mm and 90mm) will be much more interesting. And also the 16-35.

 

:D Just trying to see things in a "sober" way, right before silvester.

 

I am also trying to force myself to stay away from the 50 Summilux and saving money for 35 and 75 (or 90) SL-Summicrons.

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A very nice shot, Neil, but what was the rationale of using a Noctilux?

 

It fitted the competition that I was looking for :)

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