Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:07 PM 4/21/01 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: > >I wonder if anyone has the statistics on the percentage of low light >"keepers," taken in delivery rooms or anywhere else for that matter, >shot with Noctiluxes, v. the percentage shot with everything else...what >do we want to guess, 1/4 of one percent shot with the Noctilust? Which >is not to say that it isn't a great lens. It's just that most of the >world's great photographers have somehow gotten through their entire >careers without ever using one. > >B. D. > I strongly suspect that it is the person behind the lens that makes the difference. I'll bet that Ted has a high hit ratio while an amateur will be on the very low end. And in reality, most of the world's greatest photographers have never used a LEICA, much less a Noctilux. JB