Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In my many years photographing inside dark adobe houses by firelight, I used mostly Tri-X and TMax 400 pushed to 800. When TMax 3200 came out, I carried some of that for the very darkest of the dark: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/121090460 http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/121090465 I can't imagine needing the super ISOs on some of the newest digital cameras - like 24,000. What is that for? The black cat in the coal mine? But then maybe those other cameras don't have a lens that draws in the light, like the Noctilux ;-) Who needs 24,000 when you have 1.0!! Tina I've been saying this for a while. The world is not getting darker, > right? Didn't most of us learn on "slow" films between 100 and 400 ISO? > I still see no reason for anything over 3200. I'm not a coal miner > shooting photos of black cats while at work nor are most of us on the > LUG. I'm sure one person out there could make regular use of it but if > digital weren't around we'd still be pushing film up to 3200 and 6400 > to get our grainy yet great photos we love. > > To freeze motion at night? Again, why? Life isn't static, so why should > our photography be? I always hate these tack sharp photos that folks > show of helicopter blades perfectly frozen and straight as if the > aircraft is going to fall from the sky. Some things just look unnatural > when frozen above 1/1000 second. But that's my opinion. > > I love the fact that I can get a nice clean 800ISO with my M9 as long > as I do the work to properly expose the frame. walking around center > city Philly at night shooting a 35 Lux at f/2 and 1/30 second is > perfect. All i have to do is focus and imagine Dr. Ted yelling at me to > shoot, not to fiddle with the camera and all its trappings. > > I think this high ISO craze is BS but again, that's my opinion. I also > KNOW it is spoiling a lot of photo students out there who don't know > how to expose a frame without the camera telling them every single > thing during and after (chimping) the shot. I'm waiting for this wave > of mediocrity to sweep into the professional world and then the > employment opportunities to open up to folks who learned how to do this > on K64 with a spotmatic that had a broken light meter. > > Ok, mumble, mumble, metaphorical lawn, mumble mumble. I'll get off my > soapbox. > > Phil Forrest > > > > > If I could 2/3 more "speed" by using a B&W sensor I could achieve > > > what ISO 306.000 or so? > > > > > > Or a clean IS 18,600 or so > > > > > > WHY? > > > > > > This scene is illuminated by the moonlight reflected from my cat's > > > eye? At what point doe it get to be overkill? > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com