[Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing!

[ljkapner at cox.net (Leonard J Kapner)]

If it had been the intent of the optical designers at Leica for the lens to
be used wide open exclusively, or why have it on the camera as B.D.
suggests, why did they bother engineering a diaphragm assembly into it?

Len

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-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Buzz
Hausner
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:53 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing!

...and as I pointed out, Greg, Ted...as well as Tina and Sandy
Carter...are enormously talented and experienced photographers who know
how to use a Noctilux and to keep the Noctilux's peculiarities under
control.  I was not commenting on the how "effective" the lens is.  I
did note that it is a highly specialized tool most "effectively" used by
the very few among us with sufficient talent and experience.  Let me
quote myself from an earlier post in this thread, "[m]erely using a
Noctilux does not grant one the ability to take pictures like Ted, Tina
and Sandy who bring years of experience and knowledge, and no small
measure of talent to their endeavors."  If one can afford to buy a
Noctilux, well, good on him or her!  Just don't expect to be able to
take great or even good pictures just because you own a Noctilux.

One factor about photography that is often overlooked on this list is
that taking great or even good photographs is hard.  DAMNED HARD!  Ted
and Tina make it look easy, but it is not.  Taking consistently great
pictures takes years and years of work and experience; it has absolutely
nothing to do with the equipment with which one has been endowed.  Ted
would be a great photographer without his Noctilux.

        Buzz Hausner

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of GREG LORENZO
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 3:13 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing!

Ted uses his Noctilux in all available light conditions from low light
operating rooms to full daylight shots. It is a very effective lens
throughout its range in the hands of good photographer!

Regards,

Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: Buzz Hausner <buzz.hausner@verizon.net>
Date: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:03 pm
Subject: RE: [Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing!

> Exactly!  The Noctilux is not an instrument to be 
> taken...er...lightly.In the right hands...Tina's, Ted's and 
> Sandy's, for instance...it can be
> a mighty tool.  Merely using a Noctilux does not grant one the ability
> to take pictures like Ted, Tina and Sandy who bring years of 
> experienceand knowledge, and no small measure of talent to their 
> endeavors.
>       Buzz


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