sillbeers15 Posted January 8, 2023 Share #1 Â Posted January 8, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) As the current design of the 0.95 Noctilux M 50mm has no floating elements and the entire lens group moves when the focusing ring is rotated, can Leica design and make a AF adapter for the SL series camera? Besides there is no product cannibalisation since there is no SL Mount Noctilux. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LD_50 Posted January 8, 2023 Share #2  Posted January 8, 2023 The current Noctilux 0.95 does have FLEs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Photoworks Posted January 8, 2023 Share #4  Posted January 8, 2023 8 hours ago, sillbeers15 said: Leica design and make a AF adapter for the SL series camera? it would be nice, I don't think you will ever see it from Leica. FLE is in many modern M lenses. Correct AF adapters are tricky to use, crazy settings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillbeers15 Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share #5  Posted January 8, 2023 35 minutes ago, Photoworks said: it would be nice, I don't think you will ever see it from Leica. FLE is in many modern M lenses. Correct AF adapters are tricky to use, crazy settings. Hummm….I was observing the back lens element as indicated FLE and saw movement linearly as I rotate the focusing ring on my Noc 0.95. Have I missed something? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoworks Posted January 8, 2023 Share #6  Posted January 8, 2023 16 minutes ago, sillbeers15 said: Hummm….I was observing the back lens element as indicated FLE and saw movement linearly as I rotate the focusing ring on my Noc 0.95. Have I missed something? Did you want it to spin? FLE is usually an internal element or group the moves, you would not see it. Anyway the  Noctilux works nicely on the Sony with Techart adapter with eye-AF 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jankap Posted January 8, 2023 Share #7 Â Posted January 8, 2023 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) It seems (according to Leica), that the movement is minimal only. It is a correction only. Edited January 8, 2023 by jankap 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einst_Stein Posted January 8, 2023 Share #8  Posted January 8, 2023 Moving the whole lens is heavy. Besides, it is likely your hand will be parking on the lens tightly to keep the camera stable, that against the lens AF movement, adding more stress to the AF motor. Not sure the camera body has the power to support that large power surge. I doubt if AF is agile enough to be satisfactory. This could be a third party’s project. Unlikely Leica’s interest. Should Leica be interested to address this need, it would be a real AF lens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
helged Posted January 8, 2023 Share #9  Posted January 8, 2023 8 minutes ago, Einst_Stein said: ... Should Leica be interested to address this need, it would be a real AF lens. This lens has a name: Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH 😉 (ok, it's not f0.95, but the rendering is not dissimilar). 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD_50 Posted January 8, 2023 Share #10  Posted January 8, 2023 5 hours ago, sillbeers15 said: Hummm….I was observing the back lens element as indicated FLE and saw movement linearly as I rotate the focusing ring on my Noc 0.95. Have I missed something? The back two elements move. The front ones don’t. It’s the distance between these that changes when you move the focus ring. Moving the entire lens back and forth would not activate the floating elements independent of the others. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoworks Posted January 8, 2023 Share #11  Posted January 8, 2023 2 hours ago, helged said: This lens has a name: Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH 😉 (ok, it's not f0.95, but the rendering is not dissimilar). yeah,  I disagree , Summilux is quite a clean image, the Noctilux has signature rendering visible to 5.6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaemono Posted January 8, 2023 Share #12  Posted January 8, 2023 A proposal for a 90 Summilux-SL. With this new phase detect face/eye detect mode, portrait/headshot photographers would flock to the L-mount system IMO. It shouldn’t be bigger than the 50 Summilux-SL, I think. I see heads swirling around while the 90 Summilux-SL stays glued to the eye nearest to the camera. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD_50 Posted January 8, 2023 Share #13  Posted January 8, 2023 As long as the SL system costs as much as it does compared to Sony/Canon/Nikon, photographers won’t be flocking to the system regardless of which lenses are released. The big three will stay ahead in cost, support, and tech.  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaemono Posted January 8, 2023 Share #14 Â Posted January 8, 2023 The 90 Summilux-SL could be used with S5 II. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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