Re: [Leica] The World at F1

[Mary & Stan Kephart <kephartol@att.net>]

Hello Jeff,

Thanks for your comments.  I enjoyed your photos, especially the drummer. 
 I first noticed the vignetting in shooting a jazz group under the same 
conditions.  On your photos it's hardly noticible.  Nice work.

MK


 on the subject of the Noct's vignetting:  I've come to 
>expect it, and build it into my expectations of the finished product, of 
>course;  but often, shooting in the dim, it just isn't obvious anyway.  To 
>illustrate, I've slapped the two submissions I made to PT which happen 
>already to have been scanned into a page for your viewing delectation.  
>These are full-frame scans from the negatives;  the only cropping I've 
>done is 
>a few pixels off an edge or two to trim off sloppy-scan artifacts.  The room 
>was dark (what may look like daylight outside is the glow of a
>none-too-enthusiastic streetlamp), and the presumably dramatic three stops' 
>corner loss in our chum the Noctilux is just lost in the noise.  Have a look 
>at:
>
>    http://www.mordor.net/~jbm/temporary/PT-Noct.html
>
> -Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>
>