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39 minutes ago, a.noctilux said:

I wonder which would this 35mm Noctilux be :

- 1.0/35 (filter size 60mm ? 🤑)

or

- 1.2/35 (filter size 52mm ? 👍)

or

- 1.25/35 (filter size 39mm or 46mm? 🙃)

 

- 1.0/35 60mm awful
- 1.2 or 1.25 /35 no sense it's half stop faster than a summilux (with a digital body is negligible)

E46 is lot bigger than needed. They sell at gold price, they could design an E39 Noctilux/35 flawless. E46 is a very large margin....

 

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1.25

Why not in 35mm when this is already the case of 75mm

https://us.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/M-Lenses/Noctilux-M-75-f-1,25-ASPH

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one full stop wider than a summilux is mandatory otherwise there's no advantage. I own 0,95 Noctilux and 1.25 Noctilux. 75 is a fantastic performer but it's way too big, heavy...it's not an M lens and I rarely carry it with me; It's a lens for benchmark. If there'll be a 35/1.0 or a 35/0,95 I'm going to sell the 75 without regrets.

 

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4 hours ago, Capuccino-Muffin said:

1.25 really feels like cheating. It’s way too close to f1.4. Might as well call it f1.4, really.

 

since all it takes for a lens to be called “noctilux” is to be f.1.39 or less, I really feel Leica is playing the incremental game a bit too much and I hope we don’t see any f.1.25 anymore. Go f1.2 or go home.

Also as @Keith (M)mentions , Voigtlander make a very good 35/1.2 

For Leica to justify six or more times that outlay, to an increasingly aware M user group, they need to show significant differentiation and innovation. 

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12 minutes ago, FrozenInTime said:

Also as @Keith (M)mentions , Voigtlander make a very good 35/1.2 

For Leica to justify six or more times that outlay, to an increasingly aware M user group, they need to show significant differentiation and innovation. 

I have the new Nokton 35/1.2 vIII, and while it’s a decent lens, a Noctilux it is not… I can guarantee you that when/if Leica comes out with a 35mm Noct, it’s going to sell very well. I’ll be the first one in line!

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20 hours ago, sarav said:

- 1.0/35 60mm awful
- 1.2 or 1.25 /35 no sense it's half stop faster than a summilux (with a digital body is negligible)

E46 is lot bigger than needed. They sell at gold price, they could design an E39 Noctilux/35 flawless. E46 is a very large margin....

Not quite as simple as 35mm f/1.0 = 35mm filter size. Especially with a wide-angle lens.

The aperture deep inside may only need to be 35mm diameter to create f/1.0 - but the front elements need to be a lot bigger to take in light at the wider angle of view, without vignetting. And provide Leica-quality corrections for aberrations.

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I don’t see the point to be honest - of a 35 Noctilux, I mean.  It’s just doing it because they can.  If you consider that the limit at 90mm was the 90 Summilux at f/1.4, and the 75 Noctilux at f/1.25, that tells you something?

Peter Karbe has said on a number of occasions that aperture is for depth of field, and has tried to design and make lenses with the same image quality across all apertures.  He also seems to have decided that f/2 is a perfect lens, giving excellent, usable depth of field.  Would an f/1 35 Noctilux fit with that?  Maybe, but you’d end up with a largish lens (not sure why it would be that much bigger than the 50 Noctilux (apart frm the front element.  But, would a 35mm lens with less than 1mm depth of field at 2 metres really be that useful?

I can’t see myself having a need for such a lens, but who knows?  I like my 21 & 28 Summiluxes …

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2 hours ago, IkarusJohn said:

I don’t see the point to be honest - of a 35 Noctilux, I mean.  It’s just doing it because they can.  If you consider that the limit at 90mm was the 90 Summilux at f/1.4, and the 75 Noctilux at f/1.25, that tells you something?

Peter Karbe has said on a number of occasions that aperture is for depth of field, and has tried to design and make lenses with the same image quality across all apertures.  He also seems to have decided that f/2 is a perfect lens, giving excellent, usable depth of field.  Would an f/1 35 Noctilux fit with that?  Maybe, but you’d end up with a largish lens (not sure why it would be that much bigger than the 50 Noctilux (apart frm the front element.  But, would a 35mm lens with less than 1mm depth of field at 2 metres really be that useful?

I can’t see myself having a need for such a lens, but who knows?  I like my 21 & 28 Summiluxes …

I can't compute it but 35/1.0 and 0,67mt would probably means 3 or 4 cm. DoF, not 1mm....and yes aperture nowadays, with digital bodies, is for creative composition only, and it'd marvellous to me. I often use a Summilux 24/1.4 and I seldom close it to 2.0. Bokeh,  watercolor-like pictures... Noctilux lenses are almost perfect for this role.

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4 hours ago, adan said:

Not quite as simple as 35mm f/1.0 = 35mm filter size. Especially with a wide-angle lens.

The aperture deep inside may only need to be 35mm diameter to create f/1.0 - but the front elements need to be a lot bigger to take in light at the wider angle of view, without vignetting. And provide Leica-quality corrections for aberrations.

 

ok...you say E55 or E60 could be the minimum choice? ...  

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