Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom P. - I haven't made any prints from these files yet but from what I've seen so far the noise is not a major issue though there are some limitations. In color at ISO 1600 the noise is ugly as sin, but in B&W it's perfectly acceptable. At 800 the color noise is OK. The visibility of the noise depends on the subject, too. In the shot of my son it's not an issue at all. In the shot of the Vivian Beaumont, it catches my eye and I would be tempted to run that file through Noise Ninja if I was going to get serious about the image. . This business of what's acceptable depends highly on your frame of reference and I think reviewers, now having seen such exceptional results at ISO 3200 in some cameras, think anything less is unacceptable, period. Major mistake. It all depends on the viewer, the size of the print, the expectations of the photographer and probably a few other things, too. You know, my first reaction to the camera, particularly after I snapped the optical finder on it, was to think of the old Model-O. It's tiny in comparison to the best cameras of the day, it uses much smaller "film," which is going to be relatively grainy, but it seems to have good optics, is fast operating and different. Let's just see what we can do with it! Now, if it just had interchangeable lenses... Dick > Thank you, Richard, for sharing the GR Digital >photos. I own the film camera counterpart, and >because I think it is wonderful I have been tempted to >try the digital model. I was stopped, however, by a >review that said one starts to see ugly noise by ISO >200. Your images seem to disprove that. I see no >appreciable noise until ISO 800 and at that level, and >even at ISO 1600, the noise looks like the grain one >might expect with film of that speed -- not ugly at >all. Given the other pictures you have taken and not >posted, do you agree noise is well controlled? > Tom P. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick