RE: [Leica] Re: it DOESN'T work well for leica!

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Right...But Joe...I, for one, would rather see Eugene Smith's iconic -
incredibly manipulated - "portrait" if the mad Haitian woman with the
illuminated eye sockets than look at every "great portrait" Karsh ever
properly illuminated and shot....:-)

B. D.

P.S. And I wasn't, and wouldn't, suggest that there isn't a time and a place
for a Noctliux....such as any time and place when using it will make it
possible to get an image that would otherwise "get a way."



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Joe
> Codispoti
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:29 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: it DOESN'T work well for leica!
>
>
>
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>
> > Wellll....With all due respect to Tina and Ted, who might be the  LUG's
> two
> > biggest Noctocates and are among the  list's best shooter -
> there are many
> > many great photographers who often work successfully in very low level
> light
> > without benefit of a Noctilux....The name Salgado immediately springs to
> > mind..:-)
>
>
> This is not to negate the work of any photographer who uses
> Noctilux lenses:
> I would rather see a portrait of a person taken with fill flash at f/4.0
> than one with dark eye sockets taken at f/1.4 in existing light.
>
> It is not the amount of light that counts. It is the quality of light that
> will make or break the photograph.
>
> Joseph Codispoti
>
>