Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ben wrote: <<On an M note: I took some photos the other night at an indoor ice hockey game with my Noctilux and overexposed them! What a dunce! What a lens!>> Hi Ben, here is another hockey "Noctilux" story! :) Several years ago I was shooting an NHL game in the Vancouver Coliseum and I thought, "great place to use the Noctilux and shoot kodachrome 64!" Wild thought and damn near didn't do it. Until I put the camera to eye and took a reading with the M6 metering and the little red arrowheads lit-up! Well would you believe that? hell here I am getting a reading that was lighting the two arrowheads equally at 1/500 at f.1! and ISO 64! So I figure , "Why not, go for it!" :) So I'm standing there with a bunch of news shooters and take a roll of Kodachrome 64 out of my bag and load it. "What the hell are you going to do with that in here?" Amidst laughter and other unrepeatable comments. "Shoot it! Why not? The exposure is 1/500 at f.1, so what!" Just b'cause you guys have to use those big machines and shoot all that high speed stuff etc etc etc.!" :) I was very carefully watched as I plinked away, a little on the loose side for the net action, but nevertheless it looked good through the viewfinder. A couple days later when I got the rolls back and made a visit to the paper photo department, layed the pages of KR slides on their light table the guys didn't believe it! There was lots of ooo's and aaaaaaaawwe's. "but too bad they're too loose!" Only negative comment. But they were very impressed with a Noctilux!:) "Hey if you guys were only using real cameras, well, what can I say.":) It was great and one of the times I just had plain ordinary fun shooting film that no one in their right mind would consider shooting in an indoor kockey arena. :) Well OK, it was lit for TV like high noon at the OK corral, nevertheless the M Leica and a Noctilux allowed me colour quality by the existing light rarely seen from an indoor hockey game. :) Sure lots of guys shoot KR in these situations, but they have a zillion mega candles of light from strobes! :) Hey me, my M and my Nocti baby! What can I say! :) ted