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Subject: [Leica] $750 f. 0.95 lens for Panasonic GF-1 shipping in time for Tax Day
From: taniel.dan at gmail.com (Daniel Tan)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:28:39 +1000
References: <c7c8cf881003010621n28140ac0uc397f4a132c77fdb@mail.gmail.com> <C7B1992A.5E7DA%mark@rabinergroup.com> <e9e7c5581003011322g43970c92p3d4267cbd1f4954d@mail.gmail.com>

the first two were taken with a canon rebel xti with fillflash according to
the exif...

On 2 March 2010 07:22, Anthony Kwan <khc1013 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think that the first picture is taken by the noktor nor it is a
> mirror shot. It's just taken by a Canon DSLR. I was pretty impressed when I
> looked at it. Then O found out that is taken by someone else with another
> camera.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > If you want to see more picture taken by the lens, there is a set on
> > Flickr:
> > >   http://www.flickr.com/photos/theleggett/sets/72157623527995554/
> > >
> > > What do you think about it?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at 
> > > asc.upenn.edu>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > The first picture of the guy shooting the camera in the mirror after he
> > turned the lights off in the room makes me think that in the naming it
> > Noktor F0.95 they were doing so to indicate it was designed for low light
> > night photography like the Noctilux was. Its not just a real fast lens.
> Its
> > a special purpose lens. If that's the case.
> >
> > Most people shooting the smaller digital formats nowadays do so at
> > surprisingly low ISO's, 100 even and rely on the vibration reduction in
> the
> > lens or camera to make this possible and its very possible.
> > How a high speed lens competes against this might be interesting.
> > Perhaps there is VR in some of the body's this lens goes on I would think
> > that would be the case.
> > Are there aspherics in it? Seems like a bit of a monster!
> > But f 0.95  AND BE THERE combined with anti vibration that's going to
> shoot
> > a black cat at midnight on the dark side of Pluto. Giving the low light
> > stuff people are getting now with a D3s a run for their money.
> >
> > [Rabs]
> > Mark William Rabiner
> >
> >
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from pasvorn at boonmark.net (Pasvorn Boonmark) ([Leica] $750 f. 0.95 lens for Panasonic GF-1 shipping in time for Tax Day)
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