Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 22:57 US/Pacific, Craig Semetko wrote: > Yeah, it's a little weird--I just got a Noctilux last week. Loving it > so far... > > Craig Same here. It's great. Last Sunday I went over to my parents place for dinner and showed my dad some night shots I had taken. He rarely gets excited about "gear" and doesn't know a Leica from a Canon (although he does have a soft spot for my Rolleiflex 2.8F), but he really was impressed with the look of the shallow DOF of the Noct at f1. He also claimed that it was the first time he had ever seen a night photograph that looked "real". He kept commenting on the clarity of light sources (lack of halo) and clean, subtle gradations of even the very delicate shadow areas. Pretty astute examination of a photograph, for someone who has no technical or in depth knowledge of these things, but then again he is an artist by trade. ;-) feli PS: I shot a mixture of APX100 in D76 and Ilford Delta 3200 @ 1600 in DD-X _______________________________________________________ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin feli2@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html