[Leica] IMG: Noctilux at work

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

really Brian... if that photo of you is sharply in focus, either that  
pastis was stronger than I thought...

or my glasses need to be adjusted....


Steve


On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> 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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