Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/11
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Sam;
I am just about to use a Noctilux on a special project. I am looking
forward to photos of shallow depth of field reasonably close. As for a 180
F2 with an R8. nice lens too heavy for hand held low light.
Kevin Argue
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>From: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon 200mm f/2 vs Leica 180mm f/2
>Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 9:39 PM
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>
>
> dmorton@journalist.co.uk wrote:
>>
>> Sam Carleton wrote:
>>
>> "I am looking at the 180/2 for candids indoors where light is low. I
>> would be hand holding the lens."
>>
>> er...are you serious? Have you acually seen & handled one?
>
> dead serious. Robert did suggest a M6 with a Noctilux, but my thought
> process is that the M6 w/ Noctilux and another M6 with a 35 Summilux
> will be my primary rigs and a R8 w/ 180/2 APO would be on my sholder for
> when that candid happened a bit too far for the Noctilux to reach. The
> nice thing about the 180 is that you don't have to be in the kids face
> to get a nice tight shot. I am only wondering if the extra size of the
> f/2 is going to require a faster shutter speed the the lighter f/2.8.
>
> Sam
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