Re: [Leica] Re: Noctilux Result????

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

Chandos:

Kubrick used a couple of lenses for "Barry Lyndon" which I believe were F
0.7.  I think they were NASA lenses which he had adapted to the camera they
were using.  I have the American Cinematographer magazine article at work
and will check for details.

Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Noctilux Result????


>Uh . . . I am deeply confused.  I thought that Kubrick employed the .95 to
>shoot candlelit scenes in -Barry Lyndon-.
>
>Chandos
>
>
>At 08:44 PM 1/25/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> > <<<The F1.0 Noctilux made it appearance in 1976.>>>>>>
>> >
>> > I owned and was using a Noctilux f 1.0 in 1967 and have used the same
lens
>> > since! And with quite startlingly good results. You may have made a
typo
>>on
>> > the date. Is that possible?
>> >
>> > As far as an, "apple and oranges comparison?" I think not, as there
really
>> > isn't any comparison to the Noctilux. Yes there is the Canon f.1.0 and
the
>> > f.0.95, but neither are in the same league as the Noctilux.  It stands
>> > completely on it's own without comparison.
>> >
>> > And after 33 years experience with this lens I wouldn't touch any other
>>50mm
>> > lens! Yep some maybe crisper looking under some conditions, but it
doesn't
>> > matter, as they don't look like anything at f.1.0 when you need it and
>>they
>> > don't have it.
>>
>>Ted,
>>
>>Eastland, in the Leica M Compendium, says that the 50mm F1.0 Noctilux was
>>introduced in 1976 while the F1.2 Noctilux was introduced in 1966.
>>
>>My point was that optical science, as well as the manufacturing abilities
of
>>a camera/lens manufacturer, change and improve over time.  No argument
that
>>the F1.2 or 1.0 Noctilux are both much better than either of the two
Canon's
>>we're talking about, but they better be considering they were designed
years
>>later.
>>
>>BTW, I too recently watched "Tom Jones" and was so impressed with some of
>>the dim-light scenes that were shot with the Canon F0.95 lens, that I
>>recently picked up the TV version of this lens, in a c-mount, which I plan
>>to mount on a movie or video camera.  It only cost me a $110.00 so I
>>couldn't pass it up.
>>
>>Jim Bielecki
>>
>
>
>
>Chandos Michael Brown
>Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
>College of William and Mary
>
>http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown
>
>