Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rick Dykstra showed: Subject: [Leica] A Noctilux and Velvia ... > Every now and then the Nocti catches something that makes me think it was > worth it. > > It was dark enough in the bowling alley at the kids' party. Then they > turned the lights down and put on the swirly coloured mirror ball <<<< Hi Rick, I know some folks don't like the look of a Noctilux at if 1.0, but it's the great separator to capture moments by available darkness as the example of your daughter, "OK dad knock off the picture taking already, where's the food?" ;-) I could never understand when people bought a Noctilux then never used it at f 1.0 because they didn't like the look or they regularly shoot.. "f 8.0 and be there" attitude. But a Noctilux in the hands of a photog who beleives, "if you can see it, you can shoot it" condition "jeeeeeeeeeeeesh it's so dark in here I can hardly see" allows us to capture moments that make for interesting pictures by "available darkness." Certainly where other lenses fail! In colour or B&W. It's also a great lens to eliminate or cut down on distracting backgrounds by making the distraction become a mush of colour or grey-black nothing. And in many cases that out of focus becomes a supporting element of the main subject sharply in focus. When I'm using mine on the M7, if I see something in the back ground distracting I don't even look at the lens I just spin the ring to the wide open stop and the M7 goes, "click! ";-) Because I know what the lens will give me. Most times it works. ;-) I like the atmosphere, another f 1.0 capture thing, the atmosphere of the location. Magical in colour more so than in B&W. Or shooting Kodachrome when it was in vogue, inside where others fear to go without big strobe set-up. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited 1817 Feltham Road Victoria BC V8N 2A4 250-477-2156