The versatility of the Naughtylux on the M10 -image thread-

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Guys

I had a thread on the SL forum about 5 years ago with the versatility of the Noctilux on the SL, I know longer have the SL so it is interesting to me how the Noctilux performs on the M10..............Below are a few of my pictures taken with the Noctilux on my M10......Please feel free to add your own pictures so perspective buyers can have an idea of what to expect the you couple the Naughtylux on the M10......

 

Jaapv stay away from this thread or you won't sleep at night :)  

 

 

 

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A couple more

 

 

Love the rendering of the colours when the Noctilux is coupled with the M10.............

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[jaapv]

I am NOT going to edit the title of the topic.

I'll just add "image thread."

 

 

 

I've slept fine without a Noctilux all these years, it is one lens I have absolutely no interest in. 

[otto.f]

There’s one thing unique and special to this lens though: value for money

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There’s one thing unique and special to this lens though: value for money

I thought we recommend Jaapv to stay away

Yes like the saying goes it's In the eye of the tiger

Neil

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All the pictures I have seen taken with this lens make me think that it may be "Naughty" but definitively not bad.

[colint544]

I had a 1978 copy of the E58 Noctilux for five years, and ended up selling it for more than three times what I paid. It was a big heavy lens, and I was using it less and less. But I do sometimes miss it. There was a magic to it at F1.

 

Attached is a shot I took in a Glasgow pub, at F1, but it was on an M9, not an M10. But it's more about the lens, isn't it?

 

Further images from the E58 Noctilux, all at F1 - a set I shot at the greyhound racing - M9 again, not M10 https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ2zwHGHnn5/?taken-by=colintempleton

 

 

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[Boojay]

Having recently sold all my Canon gear, photography for me is just my time now (selfishly), just one business I regularly shoot product photo's for which I can easily do with CL or M for that matter, I decided the money was no good in the bank so splurged on a Noctilux f/1 (third version), boxed and mint, one owner from new as they say.  Only had it a few days, not sure now why people go on about weight and size, seems just fine to me on M10, luckily I have also felt no need to use the Visoflex, mine seems to focus pretty much perfectly,  I am no pixel peeper, and didn't buy the lens for its sharpness.    Yep, I could live without it, but it puts a smile on my face.   

[pgh]

 But it's more about the lens, isn't it?

 

 

 

Unfortunately that's how I feel about many (most?) images made with super fast glass, which is why I've never really wanted them. Well that and the cost make sure I never will. I've had some very nice 1.4 SLR lenses, but have usually opened up past 2.8 with reluctance and only out of a real lack of light. 

Edited July 24, 2018 by pgh

[Rupert Greenwell]

Having recently sold all my Canon gear, photography for me is just my time now (selfishly), just one business I regularly shoot product photo's for which I can easily do with CL or M for that matter, I decided the money was no good in the bank so splurged on a Noctilux f/1 (third version), boxed and mint, one owner from new as they say.  Only had it a few days, not sure now why people go on about weight and size, seems just fine to me on M10, luckily I have also felt no need to use the Visoflex, mine seems to focus pretty much perfectly,  I am no pixel peeper, and didn't buy the lens for its sharpness.    Yep, I could live without it, but it puts a smile on my face.   

 

Congratulations, great lens, I too have just acquired a f1  but mine back focuses quite badly, I took some photos of my dogs to first test the lens and the best photo was the one where I had focussed on one dog and found that the other dog behind him was in perfect focus instead !  As you say the lens is quite portable , mine will have to go to Leica to be adjusted and serviced.

    I have just come across your flickr album, recognise a lot of your landscapes as I live just inside Wales near the Shropshire border. I will look forward to seeing your work with the Noctilux.

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   Yep, I could live without it, but it puts a smile on my face.   

 

Exactly that mate.............so so true

 

 

Neil

Edited July 24, 2018 by Guest

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I had a 1978 copy of the E58 Noctilux for five years, and ended up selling it for more than three times what I paid. It was a big heavy lens, and I was using it less and less. But I do sometimes miss it. There was a magic to it at F1.

 

Attached is a shot I took in a Glasgow pub, at F1, but it was on an M9, not an M10. But it's more about the lens, isn't it?

 

Further images from the E58 Noctilux, all at F1 - a set I shot at the greyhound racing - M9 again, not M10 https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ2zwHGHnn5/?taken-by=colintempleton

Love the pictures of the dogs.........thanks for sharing

 

Neil

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I. But it's more about the lens, isn't it?

 

 

Yes mate it sure is

 

Neil

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Here are a few more with the Noctilux 0.95

[Boojay]

Congratulations, great lens, I too have just acquired a f1  but mine back focuses quite badly, I took some photos of my dogs to first test the lens and the best photo was the one where I had focussed on one dog and found that the other dog behind him was in perfect focus instead !  As you say the lens is quite portable , mine will have to go to Leica to be adjusted and serviced.

    I have just come across your flickr album, recognise a lot of your landscapes as I live just inside Wales near the Shropshire border. I will look forward to seeing your work with the Noctilux.

 

 

Hello Rupert, good to connect with someone close to home.  Seems I had better luck with my copy, from everything I had read before purchase I was anticipating it needing adjustment.  Mine could be improved with a service, the focus ring is very stiff, I don't think it has been used much the last few years.  I was thinking of taking mine along to Malcolm Taylor and getting him to code it at the same time but I would be interested to know how long Leica take to service yours if you do send it in.  

[Rupert Greenwell]

I don’t yet know how long a service will take, I am planning a trip to London but being a backwoodsman I keep putting it off, I am wanting to sell my SL and I was going to drop my Noctilux off with the dealer at the same time. I know who you mean by Malcolm Taylor , I used to hear that he was very busy and there could be a long wait.

This is my third attempt at getting a good copy of a Noctilux! My first was about 5 years ago when I was still using film, I bought a F1.0, the dealer said that it was stiff to focus and they would send it to Leica for a service. When I finally received it I found it very stiff to focus, the dealer said that it was ‘normal’ for the lens. After a bit of time I gave up and sold it. Last year I bought another one from a different dealer, I was told that you could focus it with one finger. On delivery sure enough it was very easy to focus, I then wondered if my first lens had actually been sent to Leica as there was no paperwork. This second lens was way out of adjustment, I have a embarrassment of M cameras from M3 to the Monochrom, the lens was out on all my bodies, the Leica dealer refused to accept this as they claimed that they had tested the lens before sending it out, I returned it for a refund.

This year with the arrival of a new Cocker spaniel puppy to photograph my interest rose again ,this time Richard Caplan had a mint F1.0, I have always found his used stock to be excellent, he told me that the lens had been used by a portrait photographer who specialised in photographing children, he always used the lens at a fixed distance from his subject and that had caused a slight stiffness with the focus . If he hadn’t of told me that I would not have noticed, it is at about 12 feet which makes sense. Sadly the lens back focuses when wide open by a few inches, I would also like to get it coded as when I put it on the SL the camera keeps on rejecting the manual code that I put in each time the focus is either at infinity or close up. Anyway the SL is not for me , hopefully I will one day have a Noctilux that works ! The puppy meanwhile has got faster and faster but it is a great feeling when I get a photo of her with a manual lens when she is at speed !

[Boojay]

I don’t yet know how long a service will take, I am planning a trip to London but being a backwoodsman I keep putting it off, I am wanting to sell my SL and I was going to drop my Noctilux off with the dealer at the same time. I know who you mean by Malcolm Taylor , I used to hear that he was very busy and there could be a long wait.

This is my third attempt at getting a good copy of a Noctilux! My first was about 5 years ago when I was still using film, I bought a F1.0, the dealer said that it was stiff to focus and they would send it to Leica for a service. When I finally received it I found it very stiff to focus, the dealer said that it was ‘normal’ for the lens. After a bit of time I gave up and sold it. Last year I bought another one from a different dealer, I was told that you could focus it with one finger. On delivery sure enough it was very easy to focus, I then wondered if my first lens had actually been sent to Leica as there was no paperwork. This second lens was way out of adjustment, I have a embarrassment of M cameras from M3 to the Monochrom, the lens was out on all my bodies, the Leica dealer refused to accept this as they claimed that they had tested the lens before sending it out, I returned it for a refund.

This year with the arrival of a new Cocker spaniel puppy to photograph my interest rose again ,this time Richard Caplan had a mint F1.0, I have always found his used stock to be excellent, he told me that the lens had been used by a portrait photographer who specialised in photographing children, he always used the lens at a fixed distance from his subject and that had caused a slight stiffness with the focus . If he hadn’t of told me that I would not have noticed, it is at about 12 feet which makes sense. Sadly the lens back focuses when wide open by a few inches, I would also like to get it coded as when I put it on the SL the camera keeps on rejecting the manual code that I put in each time the focus is either at infinity or close up. Anyway the SL is not for me , hopefully I will one day have a Noctilux that works ! The puppy meanwhile has got faster and faster but it is a great feeling when I get a photo of her with a manual lens when she is at speed !

 

 

Oh dear, seems you have had bad luck with Noctilux so far.  With regard to Malcolm Taylor, I know he does get busy, and having recently lost his wife may be slowing down a little, but he has never taken longer than 3-4 weeks with anything he has done for me.  I took a 75 Lux to him a few months ago, it was miles out on my M and I wanted it coded.  He said a month but it was done in less than three weeks.   May be worth you giving him a call if you can't face the trip to London.   

 

Nothing nicer than a Cocker Spaniel Puppy, sadly we are at the other end of life with ours, he is 13 now, deaf (unless you open the fridge door), nearly blind and his back legs have just about given up.  Anyhow, good luck getting sorted.

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Last year I slipped while wearing CROCS and the force of me hitting the ground while carrying the SL and Noctilux 0.95 the Noctilux bayonet mount snapped right off the lens body. I took it to the Leica store in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, they sent it to Berlin and just over a week later I had my Noctilux back looking like new.....amazing service

 

Neil

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[larsv]

Great series!

 

I had a 1978 copy of the E58 Noctilux for five years, and ended up selling it for more than three times what I paid. It was a big heavy lens, and I was using it less and less. But I do sometimes miss it. There was a magic to it at F1.

 

Attached is a shot I took in a Glasgow pub, at F1, but it was on an M9, not an M10. But it's more about the lens, isn't it?

 

Further images from the E58 Noctilux, all at F1 - a set I shot at the greyhound racing - M9 again, not M10 https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ2zwHGHnn5/?taken-by=colintempleton