Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] noct performance beats F5 and F2.8 zoom
From: "Mike Quinn" <mlquinn@san.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:31:47 -0700

Beautiful picture.

But how did you get that much depth of field at f1.8?.

- -Mike

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"Robert G. Stevens wrote:

> Below is a link to a Noctilux shot taken at between f1.4 and F2.  The guy
> on the floor beside me had an F5 with a F2.8 zoom lens.  He was shooting
> 800asa print film, I was shooting E200 Slide film.  I could shoot slower
> slide film because my lens was three stops faster than his.  In this case,
> I could not have shot at F1, because it would have required over 1/1000th
> of a second.  I chose to shoot at 1/500th as it was sufficient to stop the
> action.