Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Matt That's why I bought the Summilux - for working wide open at 1.4! Otherwise I would have bought the much cheaper, but well-reputed Voigtlander 2.5/75mm Heliar. That doesn't say that I always use it wide-open. But why buying a fast lens if you're not using the speed? Thats like buying a Ferrari and creep along the road. With a 75mm lens you have to focus anyway if you're wide open or not - except at infinity. Here I was not quick enough to focus on the bride http://www.mogool.com/fritz/weddingpix/source/13.html I had shot the bride, with the focus sharp on her, when she was 3m away (pic before), and then I just followed her, without real control over the focus, and shot again - now her grandparents are sharp and she's is blurred... would be an interesting shot, if the bride and her attendant wouldn't be so light and the grandparents so dark because of the flashlight... By the way, I use the flash very rarely. Better should have used a 1600 or 3200 ASA B&W film in the church. Anyway, the pictures had more success than those from the official pro wedding photog (which was, after the church ceremony, very impressed by my Leica's quiet shutter - he had a rather noisy motordriven Nikon SLR). Didier >Didier, >Many thanks. I'm impressed that you used the 75 wide open at such an >event. I know its practice, but I've found getting the focus isn't easy >even in fixed situations. I woulodn't be brave enough to risk it in such a >moving situation. >Matt. > >>Matt >>1.4/75 wide open, Kodak Gold 100 ASA: >>http://www.mogool.com/fritz/weddingpix/source/9.html >>I guess this one was wide open >>http://www.mogool.com/fritz/weddingpix/source/8.html >>Not shure if wide open. Maybe something inbetween f1.4 and f2.0 - don't >>remember. >>Didier >> >> >>>This may sound strange, but I was wondering if anyone has any good shots >>>on the net I could see taken with the 75mm 1.4 lens? Particularly in low >>>light and open. >>>Matt.