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 p.2 #10 · Leica 50 summilux, close focus vs nokton 1.0 | |
Lovely images, Jorge!
Both lenses make lovely images. My Summilux version is ASPH, pre-II, the ~2004 optical formula and aperture blades, acquired in 2018, my first M-mount lens. I added the Nokton f/1 Aspherical in 2022 to enable more light to reach the sensors of my M cameras, with their 2015 and 2017 technology, especially the 246 Monochrom. Of course, I paid careful attention to comparison images, posted here at FM, and elsewhere. I simply liked the Nokton images, compared to images shot with the Noctilux 0.95. Plus, the Nolkton was the physically smaller and lighter option, compared to the Noctilux 0.95 and whatever now-dis-remembered Chinese options were extant, at the time.
I will always prefer the Summilux ASPH, as it was the lens that I used to fall in love with the Leica M system, which may have saved me from quitting photography, altogether, as I needed an "antidote" to the stress and trauma of seven years of forensic/evidentiary/crime scene photography. (The hardest part is photographing living, breathing, traumatized victims, at very close range, which can be seen as "action macro.")
Background blur is not the be-all and end-all of my shooting, but the Summilux-M ASPH is my gold standard for background blur.
Close-Focus? Well, as this requires use of Visoflex/Live View, anyway, it is simple enough to install my Leica Macro Adapter M 14652, which I acquired pre-owned, for considerably less than its new price. Or, the Summicron-M 75mm ASPH has the Maximum Magnification spec to do, at its MFD of 0.7m, about that the Close-Focus 50 ASPH II does at its MFD. So, that leaves the different aperture blade configuration, which may or may not become a reason to acquire the 50 ASPH II.
To be clear, none of this is being argumentative. 
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