Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux users please sound off
From: Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:10:16 -0500

On 7/27/99 4:12 PM Zeissleica@aol.com wrote

>The first time you are shooting indoors with shutter speeds you normally use 
>outside, you'll start to crack a smile.  And when others tell you the shot 
>won't come out "because you're not using a flash", it'll turn into an 
>outright grin.  And when you see what it can do under flare conditions, 
>you'll hoot and holler.

Last week I had to do a quick hospital shot for one of our magazines.  We 
usually try to set these things up with "fake" patients and such then 
light them rather well.  The only option I had on this shoot was to shoot 
a Cath operation while it was going on.  They kill (oops worng word for a 
surgery) all the room lights and look at a computer/TV moniter.  If I 
shot when the room lights were on the moniters were blank, when they had 
suff on them the room was dark...soooo....out comes the Noctilux and my 
Canon 24 1.4L.  I was shooting at 1/30@1 with the Noctilux and 1/15@1.4 
with the Canon both with Fuji 400 color neg film rated @ 400.  The 
hospital PR person did not believe that I was shooting with all the room 
lights off.

The photos turned out great and when I was telling them about how dark it 
was at the lab they were amazed in the quality of the photos.

BTW I choose the shot made with the Canon 24 1.4L since it showed more 
"atmosphere" with more computer junk and such in the shot due to the 
wider angle of view.



Harrison McClary
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