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Examples 1: 50/0.95 Noctilux
Most of these images are at f/0.95, but a few (inadvertently) might be at f/1.2 or f/1.4, because it’s really easy to nudge the aperture ring without noticing— one minor flaw in the ergonomics of the Noctilux.
I found that auto exposure “blew out” highlights and did not work well. I shot manually, and tended to underexpose, so there might be more noise than otherwise to be expected, since I had to add exposure compensation during RAW development with a number of these images.
These examples are from a quick backyard shoot; it clearly takes some time to learn how to exploit the lens. I am confident that the 50/0.95 Noctilux would prove a powerful tool with more experience, my time with it is/was limited to three days.
Be sure to click on each image and view it larger, and the associated actual-pixels crops.
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