Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]First, I start with the Rabiner Neopan 1600 film/developer solution. Then, with the Noct at f/1.0, I have latitude in shutter speed choices. Sure, it's cheating. I'll sometimes venture to 1/15th second, hoping for a zen-like, semi-comatose state while the shutter is open. Fat chance. Even if I do my part, 1/30th is a crap shoot, what with people being more dynamic that your usual peeling paint study. Chris Lawson > Ted is in the house!! > > A question for Noctilx users. > > At what shutter speed do you ususaly shoot at? > > > peace > > > David > On Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 08:20AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> > wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information