Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Bob. >It appears you've tamed the beast and are capturing what you see. >Very nice image; best of luck as the machine becomes second nature to you, >Bob > >On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > > Having lost my darkroom and, by now, probably my darkroom skills, I no > > longer consider film, and therefore a fair collection of pocketable > > cameras, e.g. Rollei 35, are now paper weights until sold. So, what to > do > > for the camera one always has with one--no, I don't have an iPhone and > no > > intention of getting one. > > > > Before deciding to invest in a full-frame digital camera, I bought > > Lightroom and a "junk" camera, a Nikon Coolpix S610 to help me decide > > whether I would be happy in the digital world. Then came the decision > as to > > which camera, and as I wrote before, remembering how much I loved my > M6, I > > took the hideous financial plunge and bought an M9 body. > > > > Recently, I started brooding about the fact that I should start having a > > camera with me all the time, and am emotionally incapable of risking > even > > cosmetic damage to a $7K device. Besides, the M9, while light, small, > and > > handy, is just not, to me, a wear it all the time camera. > > > > What to get? Most cameras that produce RAW are expensive enough to cause > > marital problems and I don't think any could be called pocket > > size--possibly one of the Ricoh models, but I'm damned if I'll pay that > > price for a camera that doesn't come with a viewfinder. > > > > Finally, I started to reconsider that miserable little Nikon. It took > > about an hour to find all the menus, disable almost all automatic > features, > > and get its behavior to approximate that of a film point and shoot. So, > the > > only auto feature I left in is color balance, since that would minimize > the > > amount of color adjustment needed in LR. Next, I set it to do only > > center-weighted focus, with a focus lock, which is also an exposure > lock, > > when the shutter release is pushed to a point of resistance. It took me > a > > long time to discover the menu for setting ISO manually. I then was > pleased > > to see that ISO value always shows on the screen. Also shutter speed and > > stop show when the release is pressed to the resistance point. ISO > change > > is the way to control shutter speed because the stop range is small. So, > > with all of these settings, the camera becomes usable! Finally, there > is a > > macro mode, which will be helpful with flowers. > > > > I was surprised at how low the noise level is at ISO 3200--a bit better > > than the M9 at 2400. > > > > A tribute to the near death of this year's fall colors is here: > > > > >http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/herbk1/Last+fall+colors.**jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Last+fall+colors.jpg.html> > > -- > > Herbert Kanner > > kanner at acm.org > > 650-326-8204 > > > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See >http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > > >more information > > > > > >-- >Bob Adler >Palo Alto, CA >http://www.rgaphoto.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.