[Leica] 2500 ISO

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Tina,

I'm a slow film shooter and with digital rarely go above ISO 800.  
Your ISO 2500 shots perked my interest. So I took my D2X with a 50mm  
f1.2 lens out to the backyard at 11 PM and no lights and shot in the  
dark. You know with ISO 1600 at 1 sec and f1.2 It's pretty dark. Yes  
the pictures come out (surprise) and are a little noisy, but I'll  
never shoot in darkness like that. From what I've seen that makes  
your ship picture at ISO 2500 pretty darn good. I think your banding  
problem will get fixed. I'm now on the band wagon to pick up a M8  
when I can afford it. I've got a nice collection of M glass that  
wants to try digital.

Len


On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:04 PM, 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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