Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc: She was actually on a lawn chair and I was sitting on one as well. Not much movement, but 1/1000th at F1 in the shade of a tree. Auto focus would have gotten it if it focused on the right spot. Regards, Robert At 11:32 AM 4/16/99 -0700, you wrote: >"Robert G. Stevens" wrote: >snip >> >I was impressed by the Noct. Shot of a girl on a swing someone here had >> >with Agfapan 25 and each eyelash doing its own number and nothing else >> >in focus at dusk. >snip >> MarK: >> >> That was my shot of the baby. It is on my Noctilux page. A link to scan >> of the eye area is below as well. I find all of the fast lenses hard to >> focus up close for people and I think it is because of movement after >> focusing. If you move back eight feet or so things get much better. >> >And realistically a kid on a swing would require an element of luck. >Thank god for roll film. >But I was impressed anyway. I think you anticipated and made luck run >your way. >Could autofocus have gotten it? I don't think quite yet. Maybe the Nikon >F6 or EOS 2001! >Mark Rabiner > > > >