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Why Well they did release a Summarex 851.5 many years ago, but it was so big and heavy and didnt work well on an M body.

For those of you that read my article Clash of the Titans which was featured on Steve Huffs website, you know that I am very familiar with the Noctilux range.

The Noctilux and fast lenses in general spark a lot of interest from all kinds of photographers; not only for their abilities to provide faster shooting speeds in low light conditions, but more so for their unique rendering and signatures, in the way they capture light and draw out of focus areas.

The Noctilux-M is quite possibly Leicas most celebrated lens, and is the star-child of the companys lens design history.

Historically, it has always been a 50mm lens, starting with the 50mm f1.2 in 1966, then the different variants made with an f1 aperture in 1976, and then the current model pushed to an incredible f0.95 in 2008.

Fast forward almost 10 years and we are blessed with Leicas latest marvel, in a 75mm variant for the first time, and technically their slowest speed Noctilux to date, though the fastest 75mm lens ever made in regular production (other than the Leitz Summar 750.85 from 1934).

I was fortunate enough to spend some time with Leica Akademie Germanys Oliver Vogler who was in Bangkok doing a workshop, and we spent a couple hours together shooting, eating a drinking.with the new Noctilux-M 751.25.

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It was discontinued in 2007, and several years later replaced with a much more modern update in the Summicron-M 752 with APO glass.

The 752 is a fantastic lens thats very easy to focus and comes in a very small size which gives it a great advantage over the new Noctilux so it should not be counted out just on its slower aperture alone.

Many M users had a lot of difficulty focusing the 751.4 on the M and this is also what drove Leica to produce the 752 as the successor.

Focus accuracy is a very, very important technical challenge to achieve when taking a portrait, especially then isolating the subject from the background.

To me, the M has always excelled more so as a camera for wide to 50mm focal lengths due to its weakness in being able to achieve accurate focus with telephoto lenses Yes it IS possible, but its not easy, and techniques like focus bracketing need to be employed to increase ones chances of ensuring accurate focus.

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For those of you who dont know the SL, it is the worlds first professional mirrorless camera, that happens to have the worlds largest and most accurate and highest resolving electronic viewfinder with 4.4 million pixel resolution that is unmatched by anything currently available in the mirrorless segment.

Its ability to zoom into the frame to check focus on a subjects eye, combined with focus peaking gives it an enormous advantage over the M when it comes to focus.

Not to mention that exposure and white balance are also displayed live before you ever press the shutter - giving as true rendition of what you see is what you get.

The technique is easily achieved by looking into the viewfinder, pressing the zoom button option which zooms into 100 and 200 with a single or double press, then turning the focus ring until the focus is exactly where you want it.

In my experience I achieve a 95 hit rate on the SL using any Noctilux lens, compared to about 75 on the M.

This can make all the difference when youre in a rush, and certainly makes for more efficient shooting and a better overall shooting experience for both myself and my subjects.

When shooting with the 751.25 I achieved a 100 hit rate for around 50 pictures I took.

For M users, the use of the 1.25x and 1.4x magnifiers to even better, the Visoflex is highly recommended for the same purpose, though much lower resolution makes for a less impressive experience, but does get the job done.

Fastest maximum aperture in its class Best wide-open performance sharpness and isolation Most accurate colour reproduction Best flare resistance in the super-fast lens segment Most correction of aberations in its class.

Now I know it could be argued that the aberrations of the 501 and 501.2 lenses were what made the Noctilux-M special and their unique signature gave their pictures character, but it has never been the design principal.

The goal has always been to achieve the perfect picture with no distortions of the picture in-focus or out of focus, and in 2017 we now have the experience and technology to reach such goals, making for a very modern and technically perfect look.

We can thank a floating element for incredible close focus correction, with 2 aspherical elements for achieving a consistently high performance throughout the entire focusing range.

This is an area often overlooked by photographers who often assume that a lens performs the same at any distance.

Accurate colour correction was achieved by integrating glass elements with high anomalous partial dispersion and low chromatic dispersion, being more effective in the new 75mm lens than they are in the Noctilux-M 50mm f 0.95 ASPH due to the use of newer technologies and that longer focal lengths are easier to correct than wider ones.

Why 75mm.