Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/15

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Subject: [Leica] #355
From: leicaluvr at comcast.net (leicaluvr@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 15 00:22:57 2005

Some believe that a solar eclipse is caused by the moon's shadow.  Noctilux 
owners know otherwise.  ;-)
Tom

> > When I first got the Noctilux I was told to remove the lens cap very 
> > slowly 
> > or it could suck all the light out of the room. I thought I would be 
> > safe 
> > outdoors but I removed the lens cap in one go and it not only sucked 
> > all of 
> > the light out of a sizeable chunk of the sky it damn near sucked me in 
> > with 
> > it. Fortunately (all things are relative) the rewind crank went up my 
> > left 
> > nostril and slowed me down enough for me to regain my footing. 
> > 
> > On the bright side, no pun intended, it left a really dramatic sky :-) 
> > 
> > Leica M6 : 50mm Noctilux : red filter : Kodak T400 CN 
> > 
> > http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05355.htm 
> > 
> > 
> > Graham 
> > http://geebeephoto.com 
> >