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Leica 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux-M

MTF: 50/0.95 Leica Noctilux-M ASPH

The 50/0.95 is not a one-trick pony: it actually is a stunning performer when stopped down to f/5.6, albeit with the wavy field curvature (DAP) common to all 50mm designs I’ve tested (12 or so).

Performance at f/0.95 is actually very high in a relative sense, keeping in mind that hardly anything will be in focus; it just won’t matter what the MTF is, because it’s probably blurred away anyway. Get the eyes (or whatever) in focus and the rest won’t matter— only bokeh. Using deconvolution sharpening helps a great deal here— see Making Sharp Images.

Field shots prove that the variation in MTF is strongly related to field curvature; performance is very high, just not in a plane (not flat). See Making Sharp Images for more on field curvature.

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