henry_ting2 Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 http://www.cameraquest.com/voigt3512.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chip l. Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Old news. I would prefer a used Summilux for about the same price.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_brown4 Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Yes, but what a monster, and it doesn't even say "Leica" anywhere on it. 35mm Summilux looks like a much better choice to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry_ting2 Posted March 14, 2003 Author Share Posted March 14, 2003 They are huge, aren't they. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Yes very nice. But a good f1.2 on the cheap can be had for about £150 UKin the shape of a good, used Minolta Rokkor 58mm f1.2 which is an excellentlength for portraits or normal use and has bokeh to die for! (OK you have to find a new or used Minolta MD mount body but they are also as 'cheap as chips' and the combination amounts to a small fraction of the price of a CV Ultron 35mm f1.2 with a Bessa R2 and a pico-fraction of the cost of a Noctilux with an M body.) Back in 'the good old days' (when 400 colour film meant grain like golfballs!) a really fast lens made some sense and a 1/2 stop advantage was important but is it really such a big deal now with high performance films? A good 800 colour print film has far superior performance to the 400s of old and as for B&W films, well just look at Delta 3200 and similar films. Who needs f1.2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_kieltyka Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 IMO this lens is about shallow DOF at least as much as raw speed. DOF is certainly what the Noctilux is about as far as I'm concerned. I've gotta say I find the collective yawn here (so far) over this lens amusing. With a *different* brand name on the lens barrel the reaction would be, shall we say, a bit less torpid. -Dave- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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