[Leica] IMG: Noctilux at work

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

A truthism at last by the Saloon Keeper and The Rabiner! :-) 

I've said more times than you guys can count.... Take it out of the box and
shoot pictures!!!!!!!!!

Don't think and consult, just use it! It's simple, you can't think and
shoot!

Leave all the testing to the technicians with the thousands and thousands of
dollars worth of testing gear! That's what they get paid for! The only
testing you need any time is using the camera to take pictures, that's when
you know whether it works for you at any time. And if it doesn't take it
back for a refund! Don't carry on getting wet pants over something none of
you personally can fix!

There are so many things that come up in great hand wringing comments around
here it makes me wonder sometimes how my gear has worked lo these many
years.

ted

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Reid
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:35 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Noctilux at work

Mark Rabiner has been telling me that my Noctilux ought to work on my M8. So
last night at dinner I handed him my M8 and asked him to prove it. He did,
but since I didn't have an IR cut filter on the lens, the color is crap and
I look like I have a skin disease. So I converted to B&W in photoshop and
applied a red filter so my skin didn't look so blotchy. I've left the
full-resolution original B&W there in case anybody wants to look at the
pixels. But, alas, Mark was right: it can be made to 
work in the hands of someone who knows how to do it. Back to school with me.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/pwic/L1011472.jpg.html

Once you believe it's possible, you try a little harder to accomplish it.

Having watched Mark Rabiner take an in-focus picture with my Noctilux on my
M8, I knew it could be done. So I spent several minutes messing around with
focus and moving the candle on the table top and changing where I was
sitting until I could find enough light to focus on his glasses, which got
me this picture.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/pwic/L1011474.jpg.html

I would never dream of using the Noctilux stopped down any more than f/1.4,
so I'm not worried about focus shift. So I think this is solved except for
acquiring a lot more skill at focusing in the dark.

All of the tests that I ran with yardsticks and focus charts used very hot
incandescent lights, which I suspect put so much IR into the mix that the
focus was wrong for an unrelated reason. When I get home I'll re-run my
focus tests with cold light.



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