[Leica] Noctilux DOF Film vs. M8

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Mark,

Bring your Noctilux to the NYLUG meeting in June. There will probably  
be 20 or 30 or 40 M8's there you can try. Try them all and then pick  
out the best.

Len


On Apr 22, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Do you know where your M8 and Noctilux is today?
> Perhaps call it on its cell phone and tell it to come home right after
> school on its little skate board.
> As it would be so great if some of the dozen or so of us which have  
> M8's to
> go out and take pictures at f 5.6 and see if any or all of them do  
> or do not
> come out.
> I'm all ears.
>
> I can see how  ISO 160 @ 8000th of a second can make for quite a  
> high enough
> exposure value (EV) to make for f 1 shooting with no need to stop  
> down in
> that sense perhaps making f 5.6 shooting a moot point.
> But sounds like an unreasonable bummer to me I've used the lens and  
> at times
> a shot requires some Depth of field so you have to throw this razor  
> thin DOF
> thing to the dogs and just get the shot. Shame to have to change to  
> another
> 50.
> So I hope some people who own this stuff could prove me right or  
> prove me
> wrong.
>
> I have a Noctilux if someone has an M8  we can meet up later and  
> pool our
> resource and get some 5.6 shots or die trying.
> I'm at 109 and Central Park West I'll meet you half way or come over.
> 646-752-8800  I'll duck tape my cell phone to my left ear.
>
> F 5.6 and be there!
>
> I hope the next 50mm Leica makes is an f 5.6!
> It could be amazingly low priced and compact as a thimble.   
> Effortlessly
> sharper than heck and great flare characteristics with an outer  
> glass to air
> diameter of 12mm.
> Its not as if focusing or viewing would be dimmer.
>
> I'd settle for an f 4.
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
>
>
>
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