Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well Rabs, for night owls like you certainly, but for staid amateurs such as myself I am still in shock at the high speed of 160 asa compared to the Kodachrome 64 and Velvia I was used to. YiHah high speed colour.... Frank D On 15 Jun, 2011, at 11:51, Mark Rabiner wrote: > What phototograers are used to now is NOT the ability to shoot a black cat > on a garbage can in a dark alley at midnight. Wide open. > > But a a black cat on a garbage can in a dark alley at midnight. Stopped > down. With the cat leaping off the garbage can frozen in the air. Plus the > other garbage can ten feet back its cat is leaping off and being also > frozen > in the air. In the same shot. Deep focus. Frozen. Low light > With no flash. > > In other words at least iso 64,000 and be there and probably way way more. > > Mark > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > >> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:51:13 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Conversation: [Leica] Another R option (now M9) >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option (now M9) >> >> A much smaller niche now than in the 90's in the days of the M6 Geoff. >> Leica is now paying Magnum photographers to be seen with M's in their >> hands >> and calling it a "Partnership". A PR quagmire as its fooling nobody when >> what >> need to happen is the sensor upgraded. When that happens the photographers >> will be paying for the cameras not the other way around. >> >> EVERY Magnum photogeek in the 90's used M's. Read BEST photographers in >> the >> world. And people would say then "nobody" was using them. People knew >> differently. "Nobody" then meant not the masses of photogs but the very >> best >> photogs were certainly using M6's. Not a bad niche to be in. >> >> NONE of the Magman photograms are now using M9's. So now "nobody" means >> "nobody" for sure. Its not a niche at all its pretty much nobody. The full >> frame sensor did not do it as to tear them away from their DSLR's they're >> NOT >> going to go down 4 f stops in iso speed to do that. >> >> But again I'll say when that sensor is upgraded they will follow. >> >> If you build it they will come. >> >> Mark Rabiner >> >> >> >> >>> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:51:12 +1000 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option (now M9) >>> >>> That will be news to the 200% more customers since the M9 was released! >>> It has been a niche camera and not a mainstream choice for pros for quite >>> some time certainly. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Geoff > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information