50mm Noctilux 1.0 or APO 50mm summicron ?

[dkmoore]

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22 hours ago, evikne said:

I guess that when @dkmoore, @ELAN and @steamboat mention 50mm Summilux, they mean the pre-ASPH? It's a bit important to make a clear distinction to the ASPH version.

Agree with needing to be clear. I was referring to ASPH version. If I couldn’t decide between the F1 and APO, I’d split the difference and go f1.4 ASPH. You get a little flavor of both. 

[tom0511]

I find the Noctilux 1.0 to show a very special (but funky) rendering wide open and at wider f-stops.

The 50 APO is much more "neutral". I would not call it clinical. For me it is a lens which "disappears" when you take an image with it. The image is about the subject,not the lens.

Images with the Noctilux wide open are images of a subject with a "stamp" from the Noctilux. This can be a nice effect, but in my case I use the Summicron much more often than the Noctilux.