Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/11

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Subject: RE: [Leica] chosing between 50Nocti or 50Summi
From: "R. Saylor" <rlsaylor@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 20:14:14 -0500

Mitch Zeissler wrote:

> Ted's description of "absolutely lost backgrounds" is right on the money. 
> I took some shots last summer at Arlington National Cemetery using the ND
> filter technique and the results were really disorienting.  I shot the
> corner of a head stone wide open with the ND filter and the subject
> falloff was so great you couldn't figure out what it was at first.
> 
> I am still learning the capabilities of this wild lens.
> 
Oh man, you shouldn't have posted this! I keep trying NOT to think 
about the Noctilux. I come up with a thousand reasons why I don't 
need one, and now you come along with this. I'm absolutely nuts 
about shallow depth-of-field! Aaaarrrggh!

Richard