Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/19

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Subject: [Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:09:30 +0530
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Rei,
Except you can't focus the damn thing...(-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
>
> ?What Richard says.
>
> No question, Kyle's bar scene is darned impressive.
>
> But the M9 works very well for me, its sensor makes great images at least 
> up to 1250, which is what i set as my iso limit.
>
> If you use the fast glass, f1.4 or f1.0, 1250 asa is like a ?f2.8 zoom 
> lens on a dslr set to 5,000 or 10,000 asa.
>
> -rei
>
>
> On 08/19/2010 03:53 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>>
>> Why? No offense to Kyle as I am a BIG fan of his photography but when is 
>> the
>> last time you see a ISO 100000 PRINT that you want to hang in your house?
>>
>> M9 does reasonably clean ISO1600. If they up it to 3200, that will be good
>> enough for most people.
>>
>> What the heck am I saying? The M9 is more than good enough for just about
>> anybody :-)
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Nathan Wajsman<photo at 
>> frozenlight.eu>wrote:
>>
>>> How I wish an M8 or M9 could do even half of this :-(
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>>
>>> YNWA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>>>
>>>> full res of a shot from last night at 1/100 sec f 2.8 iso 25,600 with a
>>>
>>> tokina 28mm on the Leica D700:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/absinthe-25600.jpg
>>>>
>>>> it was pretty darn dark in there. if you can see it, you can shoot it,
>>>
>>> and at something of a reasonable shutter speed as well.
>>>>
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Replies: Reply from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600)
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Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600)
Message from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) ([Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600)