Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh ... I favor b/w ... not problem there. What I was impressed with is that the "noise" of digital at EI 6400 is significantly less than the grain of film at 3200 (Delta from last week). Delta does a much better job than TMZ of retaining some detail in the shadows, but I think digital at EI 6400 runs circles around both of them. Both with respect to tonal range and with respect to noise/grain. I think I like the "feel" of film better, but as I pointed out in the initial posting ... I'm new at this conversion from color to b/w. There are probably those who could recreate that "feel". But in the long run, it's not a question of film vs digital for me. It's a question of quiet rangefinder vs slr. The Nikon is pretty quiet, but I had a real chore getting it to focus. There wasn't alway enough light for the autofocus to work and I missed some real beauties. Stupid me ... why didn't I go over to manual focusing too. I was already using manual metering. Daniel On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Richard wrote: > It should definitely stay as a B&W pix :-) > > At 02:03 AM 3/6/2005, Daniel Ridings wrote: > >I'm curious as to what others think. > >... > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please > use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >