Rumoured Noctilux Family

[Paul J]

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So is anyone else as excited as I am by this?

 

The rumour is 35, 75, and 90mm Noctilux.

 

I would probably go for the 35mm first if they all came out at once but, dare I say, I want them all eventually.

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[duckrider]

90mm is availiable already for decades:

http://www.overgaard.dk/thorstenovergaardcom_copyrighted_graphics/leica_90_f1_640w.jpg

 

Thomas

[Herr Barnack]

A 35mm Noctilux would be nice to have but would probably cost as much or more than a 50/0.95 ASPH Noctilux. 

 

I am content with my 50/1.0 Noctilux which is a good thing since Oskar (my Australian Cattle Dog) is not currently unearthing grapefruit size gold nuggets in my yard.  He is still the apple of my eye,  though. 

Edited November 5, 2017 by Herr Barnack

[6bit]

My 35 summilux is awesome. I also love my 50/.95 noctilux. A 35 noctilux would be very tempting. I am curious about that price. I bet it would surpass the 50/.95.

 

The 75 and 90 don’t excite me but I would definitely welcome more lenses.

Edited November 5, 2017 by 6bit

[luigi bertolotti]

I admit that could be excited by a 35 f1 (or 0,95) : BUYING it can easily be another matter...

[pico]

90mm is availiable already for decades:

http://www.overgaard.dk/thorstenovergaardcom_copyrighted_graphics/leica_90_f1_640w.jpg

 

Thomas

 

I recall the lens was entirely unsuitable for general use photography.

[pico]

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Given the good, and growing better ISO of Leica's digital cameras, who needs another Noctilux?

.

Edited November 5, 2017 by pico

[Dario Antonaci]

Given the good, and growing better ISO of Leica's digital cameras, who needs another Noctilux?

.

-DoF

-Bokeh

-Character

[Jeff S]

-DoF

-Bokeh

-Character

And even more pics with out of focus subjects posted by bokeh crazed owners. Especially with the longer focal lengths.

 

Jeff

[pgk]

..... and 90mm Noctilux.

 

I had the Canon 85/1.2 which was difficult enough to focus to put it mildly. To work well such a lens would need to be focussed using a highly blown up area of the frame, whilst still being able to see the whole frame. I can't see it being a viable M lens regardless. Given its potential size, the need for a long throw focus ring to ensure high accuracy in focussing and even if these were viable, its cost, I can't see it being popular if made. Just my thoughts.

Edited November 5, 2017 by pgk

[pico]

-DoF

-Bokeh

-Character

 

I predict, perhaps too early, that there will be a resurgence in in specialized soft, contrast reducing, bokeh enhancing filters to defeat the hard edge of digital images. Give it a few years. We were already using such filters in the early days of digital video.

 

I'm not addressing things like Hasselblad's Softar filters or the other crap. Look to Tiffen's and Harrison's and other filters for motion picture work, especially digital video. Tiffen is deeply committed to subtle gradation of filters, many different types. Other's have some remarkable black-dot filters going back to the thirties. I have a ton of them - from when they were 'going out of style', and now reviving. Photoshop simply cannot do what they do.

 

And earlier Leica, and other lenses shot with early films... but you've already read my takes on that and members here have generally disapproved, discarded the virtues of early film which are destroyed in digital.

Edited November 5, 2017 by pico

[pico]

I had the Canon 85/1.2 which was difficult enough to focus to put it mildly. To work well such a lens would need to be focussed using a highly blown up area of the frame,[...]

 

Really? Same lens on an M4.

 

Edited November 5, 2017 by pico

[Peter Kilmister]

Having tried the Noctilux 50mm, which was almost bigger than me, and hating it I would despair at Leica spending millions to produce more of the same.

 

Leica does small and perfect far better than big, ugly, heavy, and crap. Unless you are in a studio the Noctilux is a waste of time. My view, and YVMV.

[earleygallery]

-DoF

-Bokeh

-Character

 

You can add most of that in PS

[Exodies]

Given the good, and growing better ISO of Leica's digital cameras, who needs another Noctilux?

.

  

-DoF

-Bokeh

-Character

In other words, deficiencies.

[duckrider]

-DoF

-Bokeh

-Character

Status?

Havings no other has?

 

Thomas

[jaapv]

You can add most of that in PS

In theory yes, in practice the results are mostly not worth looking at.

[Dario Antonaci]

You can add most of that in PS

Not really.

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[Dario Antonaci]

And even more pics with out of focus subjects posted by bokeh crazed owners. Especially with the longer focal lengths.

 

Jeff

i‘m not speaking for for the countless rich people who can afford a noctilix and suck at photography.

[Dario Antonaci]

Status?

Havings no other has?

 

Thomas

i‘m not speaking for for the countless rich people who can afford a noctilix and suck at photography.