Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 22, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > Clinical....just right for Steve's, Ted's, and Sandy's work. great for available light work where often light is scarce and then very bright and very spotty... aberrations no...not to worry... but certainly, I feel, not too "clinical"... Steve > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > feli > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:41 PM > To: Leica Users Group; lug@leica-users.org > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Noctilux abberations? > > > I shot a Noct for about a year and in my experience you can't get a > Noct to > glow or flare. > You don't see blooming around highlights, unless the front element > is dirty. > One night > I shot it straight in to a 25,000 watt HMI stage light and the Noct > showed > no blooming or flare. According to Puts, the reason for this is > because no > scattering occurs when the rays travel through the glass. Noct > images are > almost 100% representative of the light in the scene. > This is one reason why I sold it. The grayscale of the images it > produced > was so perfect > that I found it's fingerprint clinical. Just matter of taste. > > Feli > > >> >> To be honest I've never used a Noctilux. But I do have a vintage >> Canon >> 50mm F 1/2 on an M3 that I use for informal available light portraits >> of women. The slight uncorrected spherical abberation when used at >> settings greater than F 2 gives a hint of a soft halo around a sharp >> core that most of my subjects seem to like - sort of like a Hollywood >> diffusion screen effect. Stopped down beyond F 2 the lens is quite >> sharp, nearly as good as a Summicron. My question really was to find >> out if this is true of the Noctilux as well. >> >> Erwin Puts seems to feel that the Canon is a better lens than the >> early >> Noctilux Again, I have no basis for comparison. >> >> Larry Z > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > ----------- > Feli di Giorgio feli2@earthlink.net > www.elanphotos.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information