[Leica] Jammed EI 6400

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Sorry, I was trying to be a wise donkey :-)

Yes, I think digital definitely wins in high ISO lack of grain area, if you 
like that look. OTOH, I bet a good number of people "prefer" the grainy 
contrasty look because the old pictures look like that. I suppose in 
another 5-10 years most people would have gotten used to the lack of grain 
even in high ISO digital pictures and the film look may then look very 
strange. Or it may look very cool in a retro way. Save your Delta 3200 :-)

At 02:38 AM 3/6/2005, Daniel Ridings wrote:

>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.

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