Warning: Camera Porn ahead…
Apropos of Rachel Hulin getting her bokeh-on, I received back from repair my M6, and doesn’t he look spiffy sporting his new Noctilux!
and more flyover states, using the noct but in it’s other guise as a normal lens:
Here is a detail to show you that I missed it…by that much…
does the F/1 on the leica bother you when it blocks such a large portion of the rangefinder? easy enough to overcome/get used to i suppose…..
the portion it is blocking is likely out of focus anyway:)
hey you are blocking my bokeh!
seriously, many lenses on rangefinders (mamiya excepted) block some portion of the viewfinder and you just get used to it. Generally the way one uses a viewfinder on a rangefinder is different than the way one uses a viewfinder on an SLR as I am sure you know. For me it is a vantage point and framing guide. On an SLR the viewfinder is more isolating. With rangefinders you see everything all the time so it is a different experience.
I have never really looked at my frames to see if there is an errant poop in the lower right hand corner. You’d think shit would get in there all the time but rarely is it a problem.
Biggest problem with the Noct is that it has more throw so takes longer to focus than a standard 50. It is not a “quick” lens.
I actually didn’t get it for it’s low light capabilities, which are fun, but more for isolating figures against backgrounds at near distances. Likely as anything that I might have it tripod mounted in a portrait situation, a pretty non-standard use for a rangefinder/noct combo.
The next issue of Fraction Magazine, due out the first week of July, will have a portfolio of extraordinary photographs created with a Noctilux lens.
http://www.fractionmag.com/