Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The beauty of the rangefinder is that you do not see the image with your eye when you use the camera. You see it in your mind. You learn your lenses. You learn your camera. And then you can forget everything and LOOK. The camera disappears. John On 2012-01-25, at 7:39 PM, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > Henning's point rather eloquently captures my own sentiments. The > rangefinder is an irresistible camera because more than most types of > cameras there's an understanding that what you see through the viewfinder > isn't what you get. You fulfill all the technical requirements very > carefully--focus, exposure, angles, lighting, subject, composition--to > make a nice image. Yet what comes out is sometimes even nicer than you > had visualized, in a way you hadn't precisely imagined. > > For me--for my eyes--this seems to happen most often with the Noctilux. > > -rei > > > On 01/25/2012 06:22 PM, Henning Wulff wrote: >> I have both and probably the ratio is 2/1 Summilux/Noctilux. >> >> The Summilux never disappoints, but the Noctilux often adds something (a >> variety of aberrations, to be exact) that make a picture more >> interesting. And sometimes, f/1 dof is more interesting than f/1.4 dof. >> BTW, the Nokton f/1.1 rendering rather disappoints me; it's too much like >> that of the f/1.5. It certainly is no Noctilux. In fact, as a gross >> comparison, the 50/1.1 is to the Noctilux f/1 like the Nokton f/1.5 is to >> the pre-asph Summilux 50. That's not exactly true, of course but in terms >> of rendering it comes close.