Re: [Leica] the 35mm Summilux ASPH trumps all

["Dan S" <dstate1@hotmail.com>]

You're right on about the high speed film fetish.  I guess there are times 
for everything, but in 20+ years of available light photography I have never 
needed film faster than 400asa.  It's frankly amazing to me that a 
photographer who would dump so much into Leica lenses would even accept the 
results of a 3200 speed film.

This brings up the Noctilux mentioned below.  For the very reason that one 
would not accept the results of super speed film, you WOULD want a Noctilux. 
  A Noctilux at f1.0 on Tri-X is a Summicron on Tmax3200 (which is really a 
1600 asa film)

I'll take the Noct, the better film, and the easier processing and printing 
any day.

Best wishes
Dan States
Madison WI
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>
>
> > If I was your salesperson, I'd push the 35mm f/1.4
> > if but for the wonderful 35mm focal image composition
> > and "feel", and, to me, more universal application ...
> > Plus it's surely much easier to handle at full aperture
> > for most people .
>[snip]
> > you'd get more mileage out of a 35mm Summicron
> > as "universal" lens and am convinced most other
> > photographers also would ...
> >
> > A J Q
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>
>I agree with André. As a universal, high-speed, do-it-all normal lens, the
>35mm Summilux ASPH would be far and away the most preferable. It has at
>least one serious advantage over the Noct--its compact size, low weight, 
>and
>great handling. The Noct makes the M6 into a heavy and fairly unweildy
>camera. One of my best friends is a dedicated low-available-light shooter
>and uses the 50mm focal length almost exclusively. He won't get a Noct just
>because it's to much of a beast.
>
>I also don't know where y'all are shooting that you _need_ lenses of such
>high speed. Tina, yes; Ted, okay; but even in low-level indoor lighting and
>in the city at night I rarely shoot even an f/2 lens wide open with E.I. 
>200
>film.
>
>This is not a criticism, just an observation: have you ever noticed how 
>much
>enthusiasm there is on this list for films of very high speed, lenses of
>very high speed, flash...and tripods! A person could pick any one of the
>four and get by in 98% of the low-light situations encountered in general
>photography, I'd say. (I sometimes get a vision of an earnest Lugger with 
>an
>M6 and Noct mounted on a heavy tripod, with a big potato-masher flash, 
>using
>T-Max P3200 film pushed to E.I. 1600 <g>.)
>
>With most things in photography, sensible compromises work best. Pick a 
>fast
>enough film, a fast enough lens, and then reserve flash or tripod for when
>they're really needed.
>
>--Mike
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>
>

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