Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Michael, I cannot speak for Rei but as a owner of a Noctilux I am pretty sure he cropted or manipulated the image. Usually on a bright backgroud you see very strong vignetting (more than 1.5 stops, I don't remember the exact figure) so that I was almost wanting to try a central gradual grey filter for those shootings. But as I am not willing to put a filter in front of my Noctilux, i just stop down to 1.4 or 1.8 for these particular cases. Works fine. The Noctilux is really a killer lens except for: 1) F1 vignetting on bright background, as I said 2) Weight 3) slow focussing (because you need to be precise at f1) and you fast forget about these weknesses when you see the results :-) logan >From: Michael Waldron <Michael@cadogan.net> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] more noctilux images >Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:26:41 -0400 > >Dear Rei: > >I really like the very shallow focus effect you have achieved here. I >really like to play with focus and would be interested in eventually doing >something similar. > >I have one question -- in some images (especially the third and fourth ones >with lost of sky) there is no vignetting, while others (the first, but >especially the last two) seem to show fairly heavy vignetting. It also >seems as though the bottom left (on your site) image of the tree has >vignetting across the entire bottom (i.e. the leafy plant is very grey) >while the one to the right seems to have vignetting only in the >corners. Are the other images cropped a bit or mani[ulated to add/remove >the effect, or do they come from the lens? What is your (or others') >experience with this at f1. > >Regards, > >Michael Waldron >michael@cadogan.net > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp