Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, Tina, this is the feature of digital that stopped me using film. I had my concerns over quality, before I tried it for myself, mainly because of the uninformed remarks on the internet, which seem in retrospect to mainly emanate from people who have not used a digital camera with large sensor yet! The variable iso is the film killer for me! Frank On 28 Dec, 2004, at 03:37, Tina Manley wrote: > At 12:56 PM 12/27/2004 -0800, you wrote: >> In the good old days it was necessary to carry extra camera bodies >> with various ASA ratings to cover this situation, now heck it's just >> a flick of a button and carry right on. And still have excellent >> prints from the same "roll!" ;-) >> >> ted > > Isn't it great! We were visiting a remote Mexican church this morning > to photograph the murals inside. As it turned out, there was a > special mass with nuns from all over Mexico appearing at this tiny > church. I was photographing inside in the dark at ISO 1600 and then > the nuns congregating outside in the brilliant sunshine at ISO 100. > There's no way I could have done everything with film. The Mark II > did a great job at every available ISO. I did use the R 100/2.8 Macro > for the details of the murals. I'm still processing everything but > will put some up somewhere ASAP. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.workbookstock.com > http://www.newscom.com > http://www.americanphotojournalist.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >