Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Low light, Noctilux and Color film
From: "Nathan Wajsman (private)" <nathanw@bluewin.ch>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 07:03:35 +0200
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Richard,

I think the preponderence of B&W images is due to two factors:

1) Many of the situations where people use the Noctilux (e.g. pictures 
of people in bars, night pictures etc.) lend themselves very well to B&W;

2) As someone else pointed out, since most of the places where you would 
use the Noctilux are illuminated with artificial light, you get color casts.

This applies to all available-light photography, not specifically the 
Noctilux. I used to have one, and on the few occasions when I shot color 
film with it, the results were fine.

Nathan

Richard F. Man wrote:
> A know a lot of (most?) Leica users shoot in B&W. Most example 
> photographs I have seen from the Noctilux, Summilux wide open etc. are 
> in B&W, is there any reason to expect different behaviors on color film 
> (e.g Provia slides)? I use my 35 summilux asph a lot wide open indoor, 
> and *may* heed the siren song of the Noctilux but since I shoot only in 
> color (currently), just wondering what the collective wisdom of the list 
> is.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> 
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