RE: [Leica] noct performance beats F5 and F2.8 zoom

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Robert,

Its comments like yours that are worth reading.  Thanks.  I appreciate the
fact that you indicated the specialty of the lens, I agree 100%. BTW, great
shot!

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Robert G. Stevens [mailto:robsteve@hfx.andara.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:48 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] noct performance beats F5 and F2.8 zoom


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
>
>