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I thought this was worth a watch as the price stayed low for a while. but just finished.

I'd need to see one of these in real life before I could commit.

Not a bad price Paul

Gee, $420!!

Wendell offered $500 cash for mine, I should have sold it on the spot I thought it was worth more...

I still think the 50/1.2 is a terrific low-light people lens. It is not so good for astronomy, since it has visible coma at infinity focus at the edges at f/1.2. At close range (like 5m or less) it is much better than the Noct, I think, since the latter shows tremendous field curvature as you come down from infinity.

Cheers
Steffen.

Steffen wrote:I still think the 50/1.2 is a terrific low-light people lens. It is not so good for astronomy, since it has visible coma at infinity focus at the edges at f/1.2. At close range (like 5m or less) it is much better than the Noct, I think, since the latter shows tremendous field curvature as you come down from infinity.

Cheers
Steffen.

I doubt about your above statement, coz I have them both.

Birddog114 wrote:I doubt about your above statement, coz I have them both.

Try shooting a line of people head on, their backs to a wall, from, say, 3m distance with the Noct. You'll find have to arrange them in a curved line to get all eyes in focus (at least wide open, so you can see the focal plane). The Noct being 58mm, and using a DSLR this might get a bit tight, but 3m distance should still give you about 1.5m across to squeeze in a few heads.

The effect is similar to what we know from a lot of macro lenses, but on a large scale.

I've never owned a Noct, but one of my astronomy buddies has one. I've used it a lot, and we did variations of the above test numerous times.

Cheers
Steffen.