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Shop By Category Camera Lenses Leica M Lenses Leica
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Experience unparalleled low-light photography with this lens, offering the world's fastest aperture at f/0.95, exceptional image quality across its range, and incredibly soft backgrounds, thanks to its state-of-the-art optics and rear floating elements, making it ideal for capturing stunning images even in challenging lighting conditions.
The brightest lens available for any interchangeable lens camera system today, the Leica 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux-M works with any Leica M-mount camera. Noctilux redefines the limits of available-light handheld shooting, and for some it is really a reason unto itself to shoot with the Leica M system. The Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 is able to create 11% more light gathering capacity without lowering the peak central resolution, compared to its predecessor, the 50mm f/1.0 lens.
The Noctilux-M f/0.95 is born to shoot at amazingly large apertures of f/1.4 and brighter. It can allow you to make pictures that other lenses, no matter the camera behind them, could never achieve. Together with the excellent high-ISO abilities of Leica M cameras, you can do things like capture an image of someone's face lit by a tiny candle or a cigarette's ember. If you can see it, you can shoot it.
Add a neutral density filter and try shooting at f/0.95 in bright daylight; imagine beach snaps where backgrounds are completely unrecognized washes of sky/water blue and sandy white blobs. It is almost like the feeling of a dream. With the Noctilux's unique capacity, you could capture a full-length picture of your friend in Times Square and perhaps not even be able to tell that they were in that immediately-recognized setting.
The Noctilux has a floating rear lens group, which aims to provide higher performance at closer focus ranges. Leica has also decreased vignetting with the Noctilux-even at f/0.95 you'll only have 1.5 stops of light loss in the image corners. Incredible images are waiting to be made by this lens.
