Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, As you suggest, I regularly use my Noctilux at smaller apertures (up to about f/5.6) for the flare resistance and unique bokeh characteristics of this lens. To use it voluntarily with aperture settings that produce little or no margin for focus error doesn't make much sense to me - I'd rather push whatever is in the camera or swap to a faster film and put up with contrasty, grainy images, than produce a beautiful spectrum of greys with a missed focus point! Yeah, I know, I'm old school! Len Leonard J Kapner E-Mail: ljkapner@cox.net Tel: (310) 377-5060 / Mobile: (310) 291-0140 - -- - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of animal Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 5:28 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] DoF, was: Noctilux-M v. Summilux-R (snip) I found a nice explanation of the topic in the in and out of focus book by Merklinger which is available for download as a pdf file. Also I think it is rather silly to call operating this lens at anything less then F1.0 stupid since you yourself and others like B.D. often have cited the importance of flare supression in Leica lenses something which the Noctilux seems to excell at at any aperture according to people who should know. Simon jessurun p.s. Sorry for not including a link to the book but my mouse failed and am relearning keystroke navigation - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html