Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted is in the house!! A question for Noctilx users. At what shutter speed do you ususaly shoot at? peace David On Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 08:20AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: >Rick Dykstra showed: >Subject: [Leica] A Noctilux and Velvia ... > > >> Every now and then the Nocti catches something that makes me think it >> was >> worth it. >> >> It was dark enough in the bowling alley at the kids' party. Then they >> turned the lights down and put on the swirly coloured mirror ball <<<< > >Hi Rick, >I know some folks don't like the look of a Noctilux at if 1.0, but it's the >great separator to capture moments by available darkness as the example of >your daughter, "OK dad knock off the picture taking already, where's the >food?" ;-) > >I could never understand when people bought a Noctilux then never used it >at >f 1.0 because they didn't like the look or they regularly shoot.. "f 8.0 >and >be there" attitude. > >But a Noctilux in the hands of a photog who beleives, "if you can see it, >you can shoot it" condition "jeeeeeeeeeeeesh it's so dark in here I can >hardly see" allows us to capture moments that make for interesting pictures >by "available darkness." Certainly where other lenses fail! In colour or >B&W. > >It's also a great lens to eliminate or cut down on distracting backgrounds >by making the distraction become a mush of colour or grey-black nothing. >And >in many cases that out of focus becomes a supporting element of the main >subject sharply in focus. > >When I'm using mine on the M7, if I see something in the back ground >distracting I don't even look at the lens I just spin the ring to the wide >open stop and the M7 goes, "click! ";-) Because I know what the lens will >give me. Most times it works. ;-) > >I like the atmosphere, another f 1.0 capture thing, the atmosphere of the >location. Magical in colour more so than in B&W. Or shooting Kodachrome >when it was in vogue, inside where others fear to go without big strobe >set-up. > >ted > >Ted Grant Photography Limited >1817 Feltham Road >Victoria BC V8N 2A4 >250-477-2156 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >