Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Noctilux
From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@ans.com.au>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 01:50:07 +0000

John Gong wrote:
> 
> I've been following this thread with interest as I just exposed (not shot
> :-) ) a roll of color neg with a new Noct.  The images were a combination of
> bright sunlit, shadowed, and indoor carousel locations.  The shadowed and
> carousel photos were very nice ( I haven't stopped down to 1.0 yet though),
> but the bright sun photos were extremely contrasty to the point of being
> unpleasant.  They were exposed at f8, 1000th sec.  Do others have this same
> observation?

All you people shooting the Noctilux at f/1.0 in daylight, just
for the sake of getting the f1.0 effects... Don't you have a
problem with the 1/1000 shutter speed?

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Chris Bitmead
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