Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The camera, for those of you not familiar with it, has a fixed 5.9mm (28mm equivalent) f2.4 lens and is about the same size as a Stylus Epic, my long-time favorite carry-everywhere camera. These are all full frame as they came out of the camera (no levels adjustment, no color adjustment, no adjustments at all) except for slight crops in two of them. . 1, 2 - Serious conversation in a Barnes and Noble Cafe. Auto white balance, daylight and tungsten mix. ISO 200 f2.4. The first is cropped to about a 35mm equivalent focal-length shot. http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010076_web http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010078_web 3 - Blossom found in a niche in the bathroom of a Japanese restaurant. Macro mode, point auto focus, ISO 400, f2.4, auto white balance. http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010140_web 4 - A different kind on "blossom," the "Big Pleasure Point" sculpture Lincoln Center, around midnight. Stage lighting, auto white balance, ISO 800, f2.4 http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010161_web 5 - My son, in a bar, after we saw "The Drowsy Chaperone" (as a birthday gift). In camera B&W, ISO 1600, f2.4, tungsten light. http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010156_web 6 - Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, again, around midnight. slight crop left side. In camera B&W, ISO 1600, f2.4. The neon sign highlights are not as badly burned out in the original file as they appear to be in this low-res image. http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010168_rot_web I don't find the noise in these ISO 1600 shots as objectionable as some others have found it. It's just high- speed grain to me. Leica content due to use of a Leitz 28mm finder, though all these shots were framed with the LCD which seems to have remarkably low lag. I think my Stylus Epic is about to be retired. Comments welcome, as always. -- Regards, Dick