{"id":844,"date":"2008-09-15T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/new-leica-noctilux-lens\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:05:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:05:43","slug":"new-leica-noctilux-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/new-leica-noctilux-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"New $11,000 Leica f\/0.95 50mm Noctilux ASPH lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/gadgets\/2008\/09\/11000-leica-len.html\">According to Wired<\/a>, a French magazine leaked details of a new Leica aspherical f\/0.95 50mm Noctilux, coming in at a predictably heavy 8,000 euros.<\/p>\n<p>While that&#8217;s cool and all, I&#8217;m not sure I see the point&hellip; as the article points out, the depth of field is &quot;ridiculously small &mdash; focus on a pupil and the edge of the eye will blur&quot;. I don&#8217;t equate sharpness with goodness, but if you want to make blur, there are a lot cheaper ways to do it. <em>Quality<\/em> of blur does matter&mdash;greatly, in my opinion&mdash;but this seems like it&#8217;s going to be marketed as a tool for taking very low-light photos in. Or maybe they don&#8217;t care about the actual utility and are counting on the people who will undoubtedly buy it just because the numbers will be limited and it says Leica on it.<\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/leicarumors.com\/2008\/09\/09\/new-leica-50095-noctilux-asph.aspx\">rumored<\/a> to be announced at Photokina [photo equipment trade show] by Leica are:<\/p>\n<p>M Summilux 21mm f\/1.4, 5,000 Euros<br \/>\nM Summilux 24mm f\/1.4, 5,000 Euros<br \/>\nM Elmar 24mm f\/3.8, 1,800 Euros <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wired, a French magazine leaked details of a new Leica aspherical f\/0.95 50mm Noctilux, coming in at a predictably heavy 8,000 euros. While that&#8217;s cool and all, I&#8217;m not sure I see the point&hellip; as the article points out, the depth of field is &quot;ridiculously small &mdash; focus on a pupil and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[531,988,991,1062,1235,1447,1675],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-elmar","tag-leica","tag-lens","tag-m","tag-noctilux","tag-rangefinder","tag-summilux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->