[Leica] A Noctilux and Velvia ...

[mcyclwritr at comcast.net (mcyclwritr@comcast.net)]

First, I start with the Rabiner Neopan 1600 film/developer solution. Then, 
with the Noct at f/1.0, I have latitude in shutter speed choices. Sure, it's 
cheating. 

I'll sometimes venture to 1/15th second, hoping for a zen-like, 
semi-comatose state while the shutter is open. Fat chance.

Even if I do my part, 1/30th is a crap shoot, what with people being more 
dynamic that your usual peeling paint study. 

Chris Lawson


> Ted is in the house!!
> 
> A question for Noctilx users.
> 
> At what shutter speed do you ususaly shoot at?  
> 
> 
> peace
> 
> 
> David
> On Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 08:20AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> 
> wrote:
> 
> >Rick Dykstra showed:
> >Subject: [Leica] A Noctilux and Velvia ...
> >
> >
> >> Every now and then the Nocti catches something that makes me think it  
> >> was 
> >> worth it.
> >>
> >> It was dark enough in the bowling alley at the kids' party. Then they 
> >> turned the lights down and put on the swirly coloured mirror ball  <<<<
> >
> >Hi Rick,
> >I know some folks don't like the look of a Noctilux at if 1.0, but it's 
> >the 
> >great separator to capture moments by available darkness as the example 
> >of 
> >your daughter, "OK dad knock off the picture taking already, where's the 
> >food?" ;-)
> >
> >I could never understand when people bought a Noctilux then never used it 
> >at 
> >f 1.0 because they didn't like the look or they regularly shoot.. "f 8.0 
> >and 
> >be there" attitude.
> >
> >But a Noctilux in the hands of a photog who beleives, "if you can see it, 
> >you can shoot it" condition  "jeeeeeeeeeeeesh it's so dark in here I can 
> >hardly see" allows us to capture moments that make for interesting 
> >pictures 
> >by "available darkness."  Certainly where other lenses fail! In colour or 
> >B&W.
> >
> >It's also a great lens to eliminate or cut down on distracting 
> >backgrounds 
> >by making the distraction become a mush of colour or grey-black nothing. 
> >And 
> >in many cases that out of focus becomes a supporting element of the main 
> >subject sharply in focus.
> >
> >When I'm using mine on the M7, if I see something in the back ground 
> >distracting I don't even look at the lens I just spin the ring to the 
> >wide 
> >open stop and the M7 goes, "click! ";-) Because I know what the lens will 
> >give me. Most times it works. ;-)
> >
> >I like the atmosphere, another f 1.0 capture thing, the atmosphere of the 
> >location. Magical in colour more so than in B&W.  Or shooting Kodachrome 
> >when it was in vogue, inside where others fear to go without big strobe 
> >set-up.
> >
> >ted
> >
> >Ted Grant Photography Limited
> >1817 Feltham Road
> >Victoria BC  V8N 2A4
> >250-477-2156 
> >
> >
> >
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