Leica M9 at Christopher Lee & Fann Wong’s Wedding

by on Oct.09, 2009, under livestudios, photography

It’s the wedding of the decade with Mediacorp’s biggest celebrity couple’s wedding and I had the honour of being their official photographer with 2 of my LiveStudios colleagues Mike Hoi & Tata Tjahjadi.

I also had the pleasure of having the brand new Leica M9, Noctilux-M 50mm F0.95 and the Summicron-M 28mm F2.0 worth a total of S$30k to ‘test’ during their wedding.

I only had 1 day before the wedding to familiarise myself with the Leica digital rangefinder and the extremely thin focus of the F0.95 lens.

Started with the easier to handle 28mm.

Then I switched to the Noctilux 50mm which costs S$16k on it’s own.

Noticed the beautiful morning light from the window and got Fann to sit near it. Focus was really thin at F0.95. I could close the aperture down to F2.0 and get the necklace more in focus, but my Nikon 85mm F1.4 lens would have been able to easily do that at 10% of that price and would not achieve the beautiful bokeh (background blurring) that this image gives. At the minimum focus distance of 1 meter, the depth of focus is just a few millimeters.

If you move furthur away, focus becomes much easier.

F0.95 is too thin for fast moving events and would require the subject to remain at a certain distance for a while. Takes me about 4-5 seconds to get focused manually vs a split second on my normal camera. For the tea ceremony, I switched back to the 28mm and tested against a backlit window.

For more wedding photos of Christopher Lee (Li Mingshun) & Fann Wong (Fan Wenfang), head to http://bit.ly/christopher_fann

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  • joey

    congrat them….”) fann wong very pretty & chris lee very handsome..

  • susanlamlianling

    this is the few photo i like it very much!…:)

  • Ashley Ping

    is great&good shoot!
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  • Guest

    I definitely do not want my photographer to “test” his new toys on my wedding day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/willyfoo Willy Foo

    On the contrary, Christopher was delighted that were was such an exquisite lens which was used for some special shots. Remember there were 3 photographers and most of the photos were not taken with the $16k Noctilux lens. Only in special posed instances where I wanted the extra punch did I pull out the lens to shoot :)

  • guest

    pretty average..

  • Guest

    Really? All the Black and White photos all lack contrast. while the 2nd pic had strong magenta cast. The third picture of Fann's portrait is alright, but any prime lens can do better imho.

    $16K, ya right.

  • Ed Chen

    Bro,
    Leica M series are very slow camera. No good for event like these. Very good for scenery and table-top photography.
    Hope to catch up with you again.
    Cheers
    Ed

  • Guest

    Yes.

    Pretty couple, Average pictures.

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