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Subject: [Leica] Update on the digital back for the Leica R8/9 (DMR)
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Apr 28 10:07:12 2004

What's your digi?

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
FRANK DERNIE
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:25 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Update on the digital back for the Leica R8/9 (DMR)



Yes but my digi camera at 800asa is better than any
400asa film I have used (not many!)
Frank

 --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > It
all depends what you use the camera for. I agree
> whole heartedly with
> Lucian - particularly at this stage in digital
> development. But if you
> shoot K64, or similarly slow films all the time,
> you'd be happy with a
> digital with a top ISO of a staggering 200. Which is
> what makes for
> horse races...or horse walks in this case.. ;-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org]
> On Behalf Of
> FRANK DERNIE
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:20 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Update on the digital back for
> the Leica R8/9 (DMR)
> 
> 
> 
> It is interesting how varied we are. I have been
> taking pictures for over 40 years now and have never
> even tried a film faster than 400asa, and I did that
> when I started as a teenager, and repeated from time
> to time to see what the fuss is about. I usually use Kodachrome 64, 
> hence my need for a Leica as I am using
> wide apertures most of the time here in England. The
> only time I needed faster was in a crypt where the
> Kings of the Navarre are buried, there I used 800asa
> on my Canon D30 and got results way better than I
> would have had on film, it was a decisive moment for
> me. 
> I can't imagine using >800asa as a matter of course!
> 
> Frank
> 
> --- Lucien <director@ubi.edu> wrote: >
> > mehrdad wrote :
> > 
> > >
> > > Lucien, the maximum iso is not at important as
> the
> > maximum usable and
> > > for
> > > that we have to wait.
> > >
> > 
> > Mehrdad,
> > 
> > In September, if the maximum ISO setting is still
> > 800, I'll know that
> > I'll never buy it. No need of a test.
> > 
> > Lucien
> > 
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