My favorite Noctilux advocate from the LUG, (I wonder how many he has sold due to his many posts?), has posted a group of shots with all of the low light lenses from the M range, the 50mm f/1.0 as well as the 35mm and 75mm Sumiluxes. If any of you low light / selective focus fans are interested, take a look at the link below:

fast glass / wide aperture shots

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), November 26, 2001

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From the same photographer as above... real low light / no light shots, with film speeds of 6400 at f/1.0. I doubt the Summicron could work under these conditions... let's see, ISO 6400 pushed two stops....

real low light shots

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), November 26, 2001.

For the first link, it's hard to make a judgement between the 75 'lux and the 50 Noct'. Sometimes I prefer shots from one, sometimes from the other, regarding the oof - er bokeh.

For the second link, I am jealous: I rarely get anything good out of these fast T-grain films in night shots. I often get large areas of crappy and patchy dark grey (the close to black, but not black areas). I know that often the thing is simply underexposed, but in some case, the main subject is well exposed, and I still get these ugly areas. How did he do it? Is xtol the secret?

-- Xavier (xcolmant@powerir.com), November 26, 2001.

Ugh: resturanant = restaurant. I hate typos.

-- Fergus Hammond (fhammond@adobe.com), November 26, 2001.