Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] here's a concept, Summilux vs. Noctilux
From: Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:44:09 +0100

Eric Welch wrote:
> Ted and I went out one night and photographed the Parliament building in
> Victoria. I used my M6 and 35 Summilux ASPH on a tripod and then Ted's
> Noctilux.

Eric,

Doesn't the tripod kind of defeat the purpose? You could have used
stepped down summicrons or elmarits in those circumstances...

> but the sharpness of the 35 ASPH was visibly better, and the
> Noctilux had coma in the corners that was pretty severe, and was
> nonexistent in the 35 ASPH. 

Is the alternative more or less sharpness or the ability or not to shoot
handheld pictures at EVx with ISOxxx film ?

Comes my main question: does the 35mm at f1.4 allow to shoot handheld
with as much darkness as the 50mm at f1, the wider angle allowing a
slower shutter speed? 

And another question: isn't focusing MUCH more reliable for the 35mm at
f1.4 than for the 50mm at f1 ?

Alan