Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By the second day I had my Leicanon 10D, I had figured out how to crank it up to 3200 to see how it would perform. You know, it's the same of thing we do after installing a new car stereo system. One of the results has been posted at: http://www.photo.net/users/royzart/pecow/bud.html I didn't apply any sort of noise reduction to the image. While noise does appear in the background and in the shadow area under the chin, I liken it to what I'd expect to see on 3200 speed film. For those who want to see the original, I'd be most happy to send the original Canon RAW file (app. 6 mb) or the subsequent TIF (36 mb) Roy On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Will von Dauster wrote: > Hi All, > > On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 07:10 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > >> Digital is not there yet for low-light, but it's getting there. I >> love the depth of field of the M lenses and doubt that can be >> duplicated in digital, but you never know! > > I would have agreed with Tina on this without reservation until my > recent acquisition of a Canon 10D, after playing with - er, evaluating > - one owned by friend Bill Nelsch. > > Its low light performance is, in a word, excellent. To my eyes it > matches film through ISO 800, and produces usable if pixelated images > at ISO 1600. At ISO 400 it is at least as good as film for my > purposes, perhaps better. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html