RE: [Leica] f/1.4 and be there WAS Noctilux for Rabs

["Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>]

You must mean the same boy who is at the top of those steps in Sifnos :-)

Steve

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
Sent: 29 August 2001 15:26
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] f/1.4 and be there WAS Noctilux for Rabs





>
> ><Snip>
> > remember our argument about the f/1.4 school of landscape? here's a
really
> > extreme one! Kearney Lake, in Algonquin, last Tuesday. I drove into the
> > campsite, got out the car and there it was. About an hour after sunset.
The
> > Leica was loaded with Neopan 1600, the lens was a 35/1.4, and the
exposure
> > was 1/15s wide open and handheld. It was pretty much dark, but just
enough
> > light left in the sky to make it happen.
> >
> >     http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/oddments/kearneylake.jpg
> >
> > --
> > John Brownlow

John - Fabulous shot - But think of how much better it would have been
if you'd waited for a little boy with a wine bottle to jump over that
puddle...;-)

B. D.