Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Should I buy a Noctilux?
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 21:06:35 -0700
References: <200107160320.XAA09342@tigercat.pwj.com>

><Snip> 
> 
> not to detract from an excellent list, in actuality, the noctilux
> wide open has the seventh smallest depth of field of any M lens,
> by my reckoning:
> 
> 135/2.8   1.12 inch at 6 feet
> 135/3.4   1.37 inch at 6 feet
> 135/4.0   1.60 inch at 6 feet
>  90/2.0   1.86 inch at 6 feet
>  75/1.4   1.89 inch at 6 feet
>  90/2.8   2.60 inch at 6 feet
>  50/1.0   3.08 inch at 6 feet
> 
> calculations courtesy of:
> http://members.home.net/gillettm/DOF.html
> 
> i just shot 72 straight exposures over a long weekend with the noctilux
> wide open, and about half of the next roll.  until i got the noct, i never
> thought 100 ASA was too fast, and i never thought 1/1000 was too slow! :-)
> 
> -rei

How about how each of them stack up when filling the frame with a 4 ft. subject.
In other words the same magnification!?
You wide angles will be in closer and your telephoto's would be further back.


Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/

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