My friend Jerm is turning into a camera geek (hurrah). We were chatting the other day when told me about the mother of all lenses – the Leica Noctilux-M 50 mm f/0.95 ASPH. That’s one hell of an f-stop – “when used in available light photography, the lens exceeds the perception of the human eye”. You won’t fall victim to hand-held shakes… even when shooting by only the light of a single candle! The previous version of the Noctilux was a similarly impressive f/1.0.
Sigh. While I love my thrifty-fity (aka the Canon 50mm f/1.8), the Noctilux lenses have turned my head – alas, the f/0.95 sells for around US$11,000! While I save up, let’s enjoy the images of the few lucky enough to have had a go on one of Leica’s mean pieces of glassy perfection:
Jealous much? Jerm, me and us all!
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f/0.95?!?!??!?!
INSANE.
I want it.
I don’t know about the others, but the second picture (girl in black and white) is shot with the previous version of Nocti, the f/1.0 one. If interested, you can have a look at all my pictures taken with f/1.0 Noctilux — you’ll find the one above as well.
Kit: Thanks for letting me know :) Still jealous all the same, your shots are gorgeous!
Oh my sweet and fluffy lord that’s amazing.
I too have the Canon II and it’s brilliant but f/0.95? that’s just crazy! I don’t know if it’s worth $22,ooo NZD crazy but it’s pretty damn close.
What are the f stops up from .95 ?
That is how many stops different from 1.0 ?
Roelf
The Netherlands