Re: [Leica] re: should i buy a noctilux?

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

I'd very much like to know his secret for focusing accurately at f/1 in fast
street photography.  It scarcely seems possible, and yet his photos seem to
prove that it is.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 20:54
Subject: RE: [Leica] re: should i buy a noctilux?


> Kyle wrote:
>
> > also, as the DOF is so incredibly shallow, i'm not sure what kind of
> > street photos you'd get unless you focus a lot faster and more accurately
> > than i do or you're shooting things that aren't moving....
>
> Stephen Holloway has made a Noctilux-street-shooting believer out of me.  He
> says 75% of these Noctilux photos were taken at f1:
>
> www.deepturtle.com
>
> Hard to argue with these results, though I have little doubt he can focus
> faster than I can (though I'm working on it!).
>
> Dan
>