Nikon Noct 58mm f/1.2

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Nikon Noct 58mm f/1.2

Postby sirhc55 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:34 pm

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Postby moggy on Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:38 pm

ECS have also got one for sale for $2200. It'll be interesting to see how much the e-bay one goes for. :wink:

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:40 pm

Still 5 days to go - might just break the ECS price :wink:
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Postby birddog114 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:02 pm

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Get it! you may not find a second one!
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Postby paulvdb1 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:13 pm

I'm rather surprised at these people bidding 5 days out. Anything more than 1 hour is dumb as they are signalling their intentions too early. They all look rather excited to buy the unit at the highest possible price.

It seems to me that the diff between 50/1.4 and 58/1.2 is simply not enough to get this excited about.
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:37 pm

paulvdb1 wrote:I'm rather surprised at these people bidding 5 days out. Anything more than 1 hour is dumb as they are signalling their intentions too early. They all look rather excited to buy the unit at the highest possible price.

It seems to me that the diff between 50/1.4 and 58/1.2 is simply not enough to get this excited about.


It all comes down to quality Paul - if you think the f/1.4 is superb, then the Noct is streets ahead in just pure quality.

I agree on the eBay bunnies. I always wait until the last moment to bid :wink:
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Postby TonyH on Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:18 pm

Only one way to bid on Ebay.... "Sniper"....... :P

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:27 pm

Just 2 points with regards to this lens - the glass is ground by hand so each lens is handmade plus a f/1.2 there is absolutely no depth of field :!:
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Postby birddog114 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:29 pm

paulvdb1 wrote:I'm rather surprised at these people bidding 5 days out. Anything more than 1 hour is dumb as they are signalling their intentions too early. They all look rather excited to buy the unit at the highest possible price.

It seems to me that the diff between 50/1.4 and 58/1.2 is simply not enough to get this excited about.


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Postby mitedo on Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:38 pm

Can you post any shot's from this lens would love to see what it can do on the D2X
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Postby LostDingo on Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:41 pm

wow, just looking at quality seems to be oozing from it

I have never seen one but it does look to be very obvious quality
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Postby birddog114 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:47 pm

mitedo wrote:Can you post any shot's from this lens would love to see what it can do on the D2X


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Postby birddog114 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:49 pm

LostDingo wrote:wow, just looking at quality seems to be oozing from it

I have never seen one but it does look to be very obvious quality


Many times you came to the mini meet, but you never noticed, I let other member tried perhaprs next meet, I'll show it to you.
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Postby LostDingo on Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:53 pm

hmmmm.......maybe it was always stuck on someones camera!

I remeber seeing the pancake 45 but this one looks like a real work of art.

I have seen some of NIKON's glass that they seem to only hold for the Japan market and this is very reminiscent of that degree of quality

I'll have to take a few shots with this next time :D
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Postby moggy on Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:54 pm

I've just checked ECS's site and the noct is no longer advertised! Curioser and curioser. :wink:

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Postby birddog114 on Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:30 am

moggy wrote:I've just checked ECS's site and the noct is no longer advertised! Curioser and curioser. :wink:

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Postby Heath Bennett on Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:02 am

this lens is manual focus though, right?
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Postby spada on Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:17 am

Hi
This lens has very little DOF , and Yes it is manual forcus, I 'd tried at the mini meet with Birddog D2X camera, good lens but the price.., I think it is for collector .

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Postby nodabs on Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:03 am

it's not really for a collector it so you can still take pictures in the dark after your power is vut off because you spent all your money on lenses :lol:

but really i could see some practicle uses for that in the abandonded buildings etc i shoot everything is dark and your always on a tripod so manual focus isn't so bad
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Postby gstark on Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:16 am

LostDingo wrote:hmmmm.......maybe it was always stuck on someones camera!

I remeber seeing the pancake 45 but this one looks like a real work of art.


It's in the same sort of category as the pancake, but probably up a notch or three. A fine lens in every sense of the word "fine".

Including the cost of ownership.
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Postby james m on Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:52 pm

I checked out the 58/1.2 NOCT at ECS today and it is in absolutely mint condition, just wish I had the money for it.
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Postby birddog114 on Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:17 am

spada wrote:Hi
This lens has very little DOF , and Yes it is manual forcus, I 'd tried at the mini meet with Birddog D2X camera, good lens but the price.., I think it is for collector .

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For collector? Not really! shoot it at near 0 lux.
Excellent glass, it's one of Nikon gems, grab it if you can. AU$ 2K is damm cheap in mint condition!!!!!!
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Postby Heath Bennett on Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:33 am

The reason why I am lusting so hard after it is because the coloured fringing that occurs when shooting even the 50mm 1.4 @ f/2. Would this lens be pretty immune from this? If so I may have to consider selling the 28-70 2.8 which does this @ 2.8 quite a bit, as well as the 50 1.4, to fund this attractive exotic alternative.
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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:05 am

HB - considering that this lens was originally designed for night sky photography I would say that colour fringing would not be a problem on FILM - who knows with digital - film and digital are worlds apart 8)
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Postby Heath Bennett on Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:07 am

thanks, sir.

birdy, have you noticed colour fringing on high contast edges (not CA to my knowledge, but similar) with this lens on digital?
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Postby jdear on Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:57 am

pretty much completely irrelevant, but what about a Leica 50mm f1.0 NOCT?

http://www.adorama.com/LC501MU.html?sea ... &item_no=1

Because of this extraordinary optical performance it is eminently suited not only for photo-graphy at twilight, but also for night photography without flash - the light of a single candle is already sufficient.


stick that on a M series rangefinder... and you'd get some pretty impressive low shutter speeds...

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Postby gstark on Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:13 am

jdear wrote:pretty much completely irrelevant, but what about a Leica 50mm f1.0 NOCT?

http://www.adorama.com/LC501MU.html?sea ... &item_no=1

Because of this extraordinary optical performance it is eminently suited not only for photo-graphy at twilight, but also for night photography without flash - the light of a single candle is already sufficient.


stick that on a M series rangefinder... and you'd get some pretty impressive low shutter speeds...

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Stick it on an Epson RD1. :)

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Postby jdear on Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:27 am

ah yes i was trying to remember what the digital equiv was...
if i had some spares... g you'd get one :)

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