Noctilux Photos

Thank you. I still need more time to get a hang of this lens. 🙂
menos said:
Thanks Steve!

Anthony, these two are sublime! The expression, the photos, the whole mood!
Using the Noct wide open here is on the edge, but you made it fit very, very well!

I like your processing a lot also!

Xavier, got you as a flickr contact as well ;-)

Carsten - the first leaf shot is soo very dreamy! I liked the old gentleman hat shot a lot (you posted this somewhere else - I forgot).
Although, I am not for horses at all, the last frame in your post is marvelous! I guess, it could well be on posters of teenage girls rooms all around ;-)

I love, to follow this thread guys - always exciting ;-)
What I still don't get though, is, that even on these small web pictures, the Noct signature (not talking vignetting and thin dof here) is soo obvious.
No other lens gives this extreme fine detail, while still looking gentle.
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Snip from today's blog post:

R ecently, there is not much time for active photography. I use the chances as they come though and do some drive by shooting while commuting. This is not only a fun thing, to do while serving otherwise dead time in taxis and cars, but also trains the eye and old manual focus bones in my fingers. From the first day I got the Noctilux, I found it, to be a rather easy to use and fast lens, given the photographer constantly anticipates the scenes developing in front of her/him. Doing this out of cars, which the lens as much open, as one can manage is first challenging, later just rewarding, as moments go by much faster, than being on foot. As we know - there is never a second chance, to capture a moment lost.


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"the mirror"

A Shanghai motorcycle taxi driver looking in “the mirror” - Is he looking for upcoming traffic or contemplating times past, as his expression might make guess? … Shot with Noctilux f1 wide open on a Leica M8.2.


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"wandering"

An old gentleman, wandering in the heat of the Shanghai summer. … Noctilux f1, possibly f1.4 on M8.2


Love that lens, not getting tired of it ;-)
 
The last shot above is super! I love the tonal range and the OOF areas are sublime. Price has always stopped me looking at the Noctilux but I will follow this thread with lust and interest!

Regards to all
 
Flat Twin said:
The last shot above is super! I love the tonal range and the OOF areas are sublime. Price has always stopped me looking at the Noctilux but I will follow this thread with lust and interest!

Regards to all
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Thanks - keep following, sooner or later you brake.
I did not so long ago - that glass is haunting ;-)
 
I love these two shots alot!!

menos said:
Snip from today's blog post:

R ecently, there is not much time for active photography. I use the chances as they come though and do some drive by shooting while commuting. This is not only a fun thing, to do while serving otherwise dead time in taxis and cars, but also trains the eye and old manual focus bones in my fingers. From the first day I got the Noctilux, I found it, to be a rather easy to use and fast lens, given the photographer constantly anticipates the scenes developing in front of her/him. Doing this out of cars, which the lens as much open, as one can manage is first challenging, later just rewarding, as moments go by much faster, than being on foot. As we know - there is never a second chance, to capture a moment lost.


L1037644-the_mirror.jpg

"the mirror"

A Shanghai motorcycle taxi driver looking in “the mirror” - Is he looking for upcoming traffic or contemplating times past, as his expression might make guess? … Shot with Noctilux f1 wide open on a Leica M8.2.


L1037646-wandering.jpg

"wandering"

An old gentleman, wandering in the heat of the Shanghai summer. … Noctilux f1, possibly f1.4 on M8.2


Love that lens, not getting tired of it ;-)
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a brilliant thread

a brilliant thread

I sat up to the early hours looking through this entire thread, stunning, truly fascinating images (too many to mention individually) and commentary all the way through, amazing...
 
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first customer ? | M8.2 | Noctilux @ f2

first customer ? | M8.2 | Noctilux @ f2

On my way to work, I observed this scene:
A hair stylist, arrived at his shop, parked the scooter, opened the shop and stands in the entrance, waiting for customers.
A young women closing quickly - will she be his first customer this morning?

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"first customer ?"
 
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