Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you should be fine with just two images from the M8; three or four stops apart and some careful PS work will get you a 14 stop range. I can get 14 stops out of a single D3 RAW file with a bit of tweaking. And frankly, I've never needed more because I can't print or display more :) On Jun 3, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 01:16 PM 6/2/2009, you wrote: > the quest for technical excellence above spontaneity and content would > certainly force me to consider large format, super large negatives, or > whatever :-) , as well as a tripod... > >> striving for that level of pure technical excellence, would not have >> me using a hand held camera with a cropped sensor, designed for quick >> and discrete street shooting, capturing spontaneity... >> >> as I see it, these are two quite different goals, the accomplishment >> of each one being very difficult, and the where withall to do >> each, at >> cross purposes... >> >> bon voyage, Steve > > Steve - > > I'm going to a workshop next week on photographing people. I'm > also going to a workshop in July photographing the Sierra Nevada. > I'll carry the same cameras for both - two M8s. Since I had > planned to do quite a few HDR photos at the landscape workshop, I > thought I would be carrying my Canon 5D and 1DMII that I can use to > automatically bracket exposures. After quite a few experiments > using those (with Leica R lenses) and my M8s, I've decided I'll > only carry the M8s and manually bracket everything. I will carry a > tripod ;-) > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein