[Leica] 2500 ISO

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

Fairly poor resolution and color. That won't pass the wants and needs  
of my screaming hordes. Though I know this is like comparing apples  
and oranges, the Canon DSLR does much better at a higher ISO rating.

Slobodan Dimitrov




On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> PESO:
>
> Here are two photos made at, to me, the incredible ISO 0f 2500 with  
> the M8.  These were processed from RAW in Adobe Lightroom with the  
> adjustments zeroed out.  In Photoshop CS2, I adjusted the white  
> balance, reduced the size, sharpened with PhotoKit, and saved as  
> Jpeg for the web.  No noise reducing was used although I would  
> normally use Noise Ninja on photos as noisy as these.  There is  
> noise - quite a bit.  But the first one is a 4 second exposure and  
> the second one 1/20.  I would not have been able to get these  
> photos without using 2500 so to me it is a useable speed.  The  
> second one, I shot on the M8 as grayscale, but the RAW file does  
> show up in Lightroom as color.  I reconverted it also in  
> Lightroom.  Interestingly, it shows up in Breezebrowser as a black  
> and white photo but BB is looking at the jpeg which I shot along  
> with the RAW as a thumbnail.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/69744912
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/69745616
>
> What do you think?  More coming.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA
> http://www.tinamanley.com
>
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