Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] Noctilux
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <rheming@ibm.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:30:55 -0600

Luggers,

Well I just got back two rolls of film, one B&W and the other Reala.  Both
camera bodies focused on the flcus point at cloest distances - whew!!  this
is a lens I will have to get used to!!  Nothing unusual about the B7W as I
only had two exposures left on the roll when I got the lens.  But the Reala
is a different story - 25 of the 36 were with the Noct.  All inside shots
at f/1.0 under fairly low lighting - except in the mall.  I don't use it
very well - but was satsified with the prints. Pre wedding reception,
walkersw in our mall, etc.  The interesting shots were of my daughter's
cat.  Very black, very fluffly in a darkened room.  The M6 indicated f/1.0
at 1 sec!!!  Took three - hand held.  It was so dark that it was real
difficult to focus on the cat.  They all came out overexposed!!!  Yes I
know that 18 deg grey card is what the camera is metered for - but I didn't
think I would have to allow for this in these kind of conditions!!  Instead
of a very dark cat in a dark room - it looks dark grey cat in a room with
about normal lighting!!!  Maybe I had a light leak in the camera body that
came back out through the lens and lit up the cat!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoee!!  Thanks Tina and Ted.

Dick
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Dick Hemingway
Plano, TX