Thanks Ashwin, Steve, Lloyd and Roan.
Good eyes, Ashwin. The down-side of selling most of your other lenses to go with one ultra-premium lens is that, well, you don't have any other lenses. The up-side is that you can concentrate all of your efforts on that particular lens and how it draws. Experimenting in the latest version of C1, I noticed that the slider for clarity now includes functionality that allows you to move it into forward and negative values. In the past, I used the slider to bump up micro-contrast on images from the 35lux and 75lux to give them a bit more of a 3D look (at least to my eye). Because the new noct has such good contrast at the base level, is sharp wide open and produces such shallow depth of field, the full range of the clarity slider provides a great way to vary the look of the images produced with the lens. When I move the slider all the way back to -75 or -65, I get a softer look that is very reminiscent of the old noct or a 75lux. When I move the slider to the positive side at +15 to +25, the contrast in the image almost becomes too strong ... but the result is more definition that is closer to the look of a cron with shallow depth of field. Because of the sharpness of the lens at f0.95, over the past few days I've really enjoyed the soft, yet sharp images I can get with the slider moved into that -65 range. I'll try to post a sample to see if you can see a difference in the two images. To me, the new noct/M9 combination is a great combination to shoot with because you can alter the look in so many ways with just one lens ... and that's only taking into consideration f0.95.
It was right before sunset, so this example shot is a warm one. The first is with the clarity slider at 0 ... the second is with the clarity slider at -65. It might be less pronounced in smaller jpegs, but there is a difference in the detail.
Kurt