Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, I have always accepted that ISO 1250 is the highest achievable and lived with it, as Tina suggested, this is partly made up for by the availability of fast lenses. But this problem with lines across the image did not occur while the camera was under warranty (the first 2 years, that is)--it has only started now in January, a month after the warranty ended :-( Cheers, Nathan 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 Feb 10, 2011, at 12:11 AM, George Lottermoser wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> I don't think it is unreasonable to expect decent performance in such >> conditions. > > > Certainly not unreasonable to seek a tool that delivers the results you > seek. > Expecting high ISO performance from CCD sensors, so far, seems wishful > thinking. >> From day one the M8 has not qualified as a high ISO tool; > just as the majority of medium format digital CCD sensors have not been > high ISO tools. > > So far we find the high ISO sensors in the latest Cmos tools. > > While the M9 appears to perform significantly better than it's M8/8.2 > predecessors > it doesn't come anywhere close to the high ISO performance of current Cmos > sensors. > > Yet the M form factor has no competition. > > Compromises and trade offs. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >