Jorge Torralba wrote:
puting aside the boke balls, which on the Leica show onion rings, I would say so far the over all images between the two lenses seem fairly comparable. Not one lens in particular stands out as better than the other. They both seem to produce wonderful images.
As far as davidsees comments regarding the nokton "flat as hell" i would disagree. I just don't see it. For me at this point the only advantage the lux has over the Nokton is purely in size.
Now the question for myself is. What do I do? I dont need 3 50's so which one ore ones should i get rid of if I were keeping just one.
50 Nokton
50 Lux
50 Apo Lanthar
I am not really sure what you are trying to get out of this exercise- If its to show both lenses are great, I would 100% agree with you.
If we are talking about images just at 1.4- I would pick the Lux EVERYTIME over the Nocton to shoot at 1.4- It’s not even a close experiment. I don’t want the size of a 1.0 lens and ninja stars in my picture-
Do you want an f/1 lens? Great your winner is pretty easy-
If you want to compare 1.4 lenses, there are much better choices vs the one you are showing here. Zeiss, Thypoch, Voigtlander etc all make much better options than the comparing the Nocton f/1 vs the Summilux-
Jorge Torralba wrote:
puting aside the boke balls, which on the Leica show onion rings, I would say so far the over all images between the two lenses seem fairly comparable. Not one lens in particular stands out as better than the other. They both seem to produce wonderful images.
As far as davidsees comments regarding the nokton "flat as hell" i would disagree. I just don't see it. For me at this point the only advantage the lux has over the Nokton is purely in size.
Now the question for myself is. What do I do? I dont need 3 50's so which one ore ones should i get rid of if I were keeping just one.
50 Nokton
50 Lux
50 Apo Lanthar
I am not really sure what you are trying to get out of this exercise- If its to show both lenses are great, I would 100% agree with you.
If we are talking about images just at 1.4- I would pick the Lux EVERYTIME over the Norton to shoot at 1.4- It’s not even a close experiment. I don’t want the size of a 1.0 lens and ninja stars in my picture-
Do you want an f/1 lens? Great your winner is pretty easy-
If you want to compare 1.4 lenses, there are much better choices vs the one you are showing here. Zeiss, Thypoch, Voigtlander etc all make much better options than the comparing the Norton f/1 vs the Summilux-
Mar 01, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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