Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anthony: Perhaps you should do another comaprison. Take your Nikkor zoom, set it at F2.8 and 35mm and take a picture. You should then take the M6 and Summicron at F2 and take the same picture. I am sure you will see a difference. The next thing you should do is take a trip to Maison du Leica, mount a Noctilux on your M6, set it at F1 and take a picture of the shops accross the street. Next take your Nikon and set it at F1, oops, I guess we can't do that comparison. Below is a link to a Noctilux shot taken at between f1.4 and F2. The guy on the floor beside me had an F5 with a F2.8 zoom lens. He was shooting 800asa print film, I was shooting E200 Slide film. I could shoot slower slide film because my lens was three stops faster than his. In this case, I could not have shot at F1, because it would have required over 1/1000th of a second. I chose to shoot at 1/500th as it was sufficient to stop the action. This is why we say the Noctilux is a specialized lens. The resulting image was made into a bunch of 11x145 and 16x20 Ilfochrome prints that were sold to the player and one that resides at the organizing bodies' head office. http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/CIAU/western-42.jpg Regards, Robert At 11:29 PM 10/7/99 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> MAKE VIABLE IMAGES AT F1. >> I wasn't designed to be a knock around snap shooter. > >So are you saying that it will produces images inferior to my zoom at smaller >apertures? That would be kind of disappointing in a $2800 lens, but I suppose >that it's possible, if the lens is very, very specialized. > > -- Anthony > >