Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From tests I understood that another great quality of the lens is it,s resistant to flare.Supposedly only bettered by the new 1.4. I wanted to use a deep red filter with slow film for cloud photos in extremely bright light at the highest posible shutter speed.That turned out to F1.0 by coincidence.So I could not have done these this way with another lens. http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/folder-6938.html I will try next with a leicaflex and velvia at 1/2000 th since the vibration present shows at 1/1000. best regards simon jessurun > If it had been the intent of the optical designers at Leica for the lens to > be used wide open exclusively, or why have it on the camera as B.D. > suggests, why did they bother engineering a diaphragm assembly into it? > > Len > > -- > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Buzz > Hausner > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:53 PM > To: 'Leica Users Group' > Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing! > > ...and as I pointed out, Greg, Ted...as well as Tina and Sandy > Carter...are enormously talented and experienced photographers who know > how to use a Noctilux and to keep the Noctilux's peculiarities under > control. I was not commenting on the how "effective" the lens is. I > did note that it is a highly specialized tool most "effectively" used by > the very few among us with sufficient talent and experience. Let me > quote myself from an earlier post in this thread, "[m]erely using a > Noctilux does not grant one the ability to take pictures like Ted, Tina > and Sandy who bring years of experience and knowledge, and no small > measure of talent to their endeavors." If one can afford to buy a > Noctilux, well, good on him or her! Just don't expect to be able to > take great or even good pictures just because you own a Noctilux. > > One factor about photography that is often overlooked on this list is > that taking great or even good photographs is hard. DAMNED HARD! Ted > and Tina make it look easy, but it is not. Taking consistently great > pictures takes years and years of work and experience; it has absolutely > nothing to do with the equipment with which one has been endowed. Ted > would be a great photographer without his Noctilux. > > Buzz Hausner > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of GREG LORENZO > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 3:13 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing! > > Ted uses his Noctilux in all available light conditions from low light > operating rooms to full daylight shots. It is a very effective lens > throughout its range in the hands of good photographer! > > Regards, > > Greg > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Buzz Hausner <buzz.hausner@verizon.net> > Date: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:03 pm > Subject: RE: [Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing! > > > Exactly! The Noctilux is not an instrument to be > > taken...er...lightly.In the right hands...Tina's, Ted's and > > Sandy's, for instance...it can be > > a mighty tool. Merely using a Noctilux does not grant one the ability > > to take pictures like Ted, Tina and Sandy who bring years of > > experienceand knowledge, and no small measure of talent to their > > endeavors. > > Buzz > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >