Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/16

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] 75'lux focusing
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:13:44 -0300

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
>
>
>
>