75mm Noctilux sample photos (by Jono Slack)

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Jono Slack has written a small piece with a great number of sample photos using the 75mm Noctilux prototypes throughout the last year or so.

 

http://www.slack.co.uk/75-noctilux-m.html

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[Paul J]

The pictures and writings of Jono are always a welcome sight. In this case they are also proving disastrous to my bank account. I want that lens.

Edited January 24, 2018 by Paul J

[johnbuckley]

Thank you, Thorsten, for surfacing Jono's lovely write-up.  Jono's pictures are, as always, wonderful.  And he has captured why I am trading in my 50 Noctilux (0.95) and 75 APO Summicron to get somewhere close to the money needed to acquire the 75 Noctilux.  Jono refers to it as a specialist lens, and it is.  A Noctilux is, for me, a specialist lens.  (Unlike Thorsten, I don't have the Nocti on my camera the majority of the time.  It is used in certain circumstances only.) At the same time, the75mm focal length is, for me, a specialist lens.  I already have three 50s, including the 50 SL Summilux, and I use all three in different situations.  Trading in the 50 Noctilux + giving up my existing 75 enables me to use the 75 Noctilux as what it in fact is: a specialty lens, not competing with another 50 for use, but as a particular tool for particular circumstances.  Jono's illustrated those circumstances nicely.