Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] iso 100.000+??
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:42:10 +0530
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Doug,
You should have shifted to a Nikon D3 long ago - its perfect for what you do.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>>On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:19 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why do we need iso 100,000? ?I seem to remember we all got along
>>> just fine with iso 400 or 800. ?Seems like just a race to see who
>>> can supply the highest iso before the next guy.
>>
>>
>>good question...
>>
>>I used to shoot in almost total darkness with asa 400 on film at ?f1,
>>a ?Noctilux, that was usually fine...
>>
>>now we have fast lenses with ISO ? 400-800, even 1200...
>>
>>
>>what am I missing?
>>
>
> I'd love to get the same image quality I'm presently getting with the DMR 
> but at a faster ISO. ?I lost numerous photos last weekend to subject 
> motion.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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