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Subject: [Leica] Lagavulin and focussing Noctilux and 75 Summilux in low light
From: Mitch Alland <malland@xsmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:58:13 +0700

I posted about learning to drink Lagavulin and got 15-20 responses, and 
I posted about the problems of focussing the Noctilux and 75 Summilux 
in low light and got 1 response which was jocular not informative. I 
suppose someone will say, "Yup this is the LUG." So here's the 
Noctilux/Summilux focussing question again:

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Last night I tried to take portraits of three young women using the 
Noctilux and the 75 Summilux on my M6 in low light which, with 400 ISO 
film, required exposures of 1/15 sec. at f1.4 and 1/30 sec at f1.0. 
Trying to focus on the eyes, I found it extremely difficult: the low 
light and the relative large turning circle of the focussing ring of 
these two lenses made it extremely difficult to tell when the eyes were 
in focus. I also tried using the 1.25x magnifier but this did not seem 
to make it any easier as it slightly darkens the viewfinder image. I 
get the feeling focussing the M6 in such low light at the extremely 
narrow DOF  of the 1.0-14 apertures of these lenses is a hit or miss 
process.

Is there a solution to this problem other than rating the film at 800 
ISO and shooting at, say, f2.0 to increase the DOF?

...and for Ted Grant: I wasn't drinking the Lagavulin, so that was not 
the problem.
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- --Mitch/Bangkok

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