Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]you can spend years, nay decades, exploring the capabilities of your setup. i've owned Ms for over 15 years, and i am using them now in a manner and to produce images completely different than those made in my first 5 years. one of the beauties of the M system is you can "casually" take it along with you without it being a bother to you. so carry it everywhere and use it all the time! good luck, - -rei > From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> > > Two weeks ago i traded in allmost all my photo equipment just to buy a m6 > with a noctilux. > Feeling a bit silly because it was excellent stuff but not used a lot since > i started carying a very small digital camera. > Felt even more silly having trouble holding the camera fingers in all the > wrong places well you can imagine. > Earlier i barged in on a film versus lenses discussion and expressed my > thoughts that compared to a ccd camera the noctilux would stand no chance in > shooting the night sky handheld. > I tried though and still can hardly believe the result.Even though i > underexposed 2 stops from the meter reading the resulting picture looked > like early twilight with venus in the center.But it was polaris on a dark > night. > Also holiday pictures i took using e100 were unexpectately pretty. > I really threw a lot of previous investment away to get this combo but i,m > happy as a clam. > simon jessurun amsterdam the netherlands - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html