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Leica unveiled a new low-light monster of a lens today, adding to the `Noctilux legacy` with the Leica Noctilux-M 75mm F1.25 ASPH. According to Leica, the new lens boasts `impeccable speed` and `exceptional imaging performance` as well as `hair-thin depth of focus [that] isolates subjects with extreme precision.`
This is the fourth Noctilux lens ever created and only the second released this century, this lens follows in the footsteps of the Noctilux-M 50mm F0.95 ASPH released in 2008. But while Leica is calling this the `co-founder of a new family of lenses,` the company is also quick to point out that the new Noctilux-M 75mm F1.25 boasts some advantages over its older brother:
The upgraded features of the Noctilux-M 75 mm f/1.25 ASPH. open up entirely new opportunities in portrait and close-up photography, including a shallower depth of focus than that of the Noctilux-M 50 mm f/0.95 APSH. and a close focusing distance of 0.85m, making for a reproduction ratio of 1:8.8 for even more precise isolation of subjects. Additionally, the eleven blades of its iris ensure a soft and harmonious bokeh in out-of-focus areas.
Inside, you`ll find six groups made up of nine lens elements that have been manufactured from glasses with `high anomalous partial dispersion and low chromatic dispersion.` Two of those elements are aspherical, and the lens uses a floating element with what Leica describes as a `complex focusing mechanism` (aren`t they all?) that promises high-quality performance all the way from minimum focus distance to infinity.
You can read more about the Noctilux-M 75mm F1.25 in the full press release and tech specs below, but if you like what you read, be ready to drop some serious cash. According to Leica, the lens will re ...
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