Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> It is not the amount of light that counts. It is the quality of light that > will make or break the photograph. I couldn't agree with the above; however, > 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. I could not make such a generalisation. Noctilux and other superfast Leica lenses allow us to record the light that we do not see on most photographs. When working in a controlled, posed, studio setting, I may prefer to use artificial light. Yet, there are many more "portraits" that deserve to be taken outside the studio. For these situations, Noctilux can be a useful tool. I believe Ansel Adams once said, "There is nothing worse than a sharp photograph of a fuzzy concept."