Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A Noct is specially designed, Richard to shoot at night. It corrects coma at the expense of resolution. At least that was the case with the f1. And a score of other odd considerations which you'd need to be quite fluent in optical terminology to comprehend. And I'm not saying I am.. Its not really all about shooting at high noon with a natural density filter and extra slow film or sensor speed. It works out ok but its not what it was designed to do. As I said I used it spurning all other glass for a year. Which was 2001. I used dark red or green filters instead of neutral density because I like what they can do to an image. That fact that I am a night person and shoot mainly street shots at night helps. Though now with digital in NY I shoot a lot more night photography and I don't get to use the Noctilux. But I do get to use a 28 1.4 and call it my Widelux. Or my now 35mm 1.8. And it lights up any dark alley. On 4/4/15 11:55 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > Remember there are two types of Nocti users: professional and amateurs. For > the purpose of this post, pro means simply that poepl who make money with > their photography. > > By and large, Nocti's use is not needed in the digital world. Just crank > the ISO a couple more stops and you are done. > > For amateurs, then it really is simply a question of how comfortable you > feel hanging $$$ in front of your M240, your Sony a7r etc. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/