Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] some tests at 128,000 asa
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Thu Oct 23 20:05:52 2008
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC80308A99EF2@exchange8.asc.local>
 
What is a Leica d700?

--howard


On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> Sweet barking cheese!
>
>
>
> Yeah. On the new Leica d700 there are two settings beyond 3200 asa
> "you're kidding" and "there be dragons". Walking around last night in
> the dark I saw some nice clouds and thought "wonder if I could catch
> them in a normal exposure" - so I ran the ISO up into uncharted
> territories and made an exposure at 1/40th of a second at f 2.8 -  
> these
> are full sized images (six megs) so you can see the grain for  
> yourself.
Replies: Reply from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] some tests at 128,000 asa)
 In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] some tests at 128,000 asa)