Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can attest to a method even Jim Brick would approve of! No filters! Last December I shot photos of Yosemite under the full moon at night with the Noctilux at f1. Looks like daylight but with no depth of field, and that unmistakable Noctilux f1 fingerprint! Although I do have to admit to using a tripod. Tom Schofield - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Howard" <howard.390@osu.edu> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] f1 > Alastair Firkin jotted down the following: > > > Figure out a way to shoot f/1 in blazing daylight. > > ND filters and slow film. Not exactly difficult. What would be more > interesting would be fast film, f/1.0, and daylight. Guess you'd have to > stack those ND filters. Jim, got any suggestions? ;) ;) > > Or use the one for photographing the sun directly. > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | "Common sense is just the layer of > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | prejudices put down before the age of > email: howard.390@osu.edu | eighteen." -- Albert Einstein > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------- > >