Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:05 AM 8/12/2003 -0400, Afterswift@aol.com wrote: >...In my experience a digital camera reverses film speed. I had thought >that if >I set my Oly 5050 digital to ISO 200 or 400, I could breezily shoot EL, just >as I do with my M3 and a fast Leica 50mm lens. It didn't work that way. >With some experimentation I discovered that I was able to get good EL shots >with the digital by setting its ISO to Auto or 64. Digitals nowadays -- >whatever you pay for them -- need a lot of both light and battery power to >climb up >the Herter Driffeld curve -- if such a graph exists for a digital sensor. And >avoid using shutter preferred mode. Use P instead, and let the digital's >algorithms do the work. The 5050 is about the best of the prosumers out >there now. >But this is just one man's opinion. >... OMIGOHD, this is the first post from you that didn't send me to the dictionary!! :-) Herter-Driffeld excepted of course, but I doubt a dictionary would have that. Sort of like talking to my wife, once in a while, she would just throw in a weirdo-word, sometimes even with 4 or 5 syllables! Geezzz... :-) // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html