Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 15, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > One could rent a top of the line Canon or Nikon DSLR for a week and see > what > all the photographers 99.99% > of them who are all using them are talking > about and how after a few sessions of being able to use iso iso 64,000 and > several stops higher they get used to it and not want to go back to > shooting > a psaltery 1600 any more which as I under stand it the M9 has trouble with. > My camera a D700 is set so it does not go below 400 or 500 most the time. > I understand this is the high limit for many of use shooting M9's. > If that's the case than all I can say is the time will come sooner than > later when they will put a better sensor in the M9 and Leica users will be > able to shoot like Canon and Nikon users. Maybe they'll call it a M9.1. > And when that happens there will be a nice run off of Canon and Nikon > shooters who will put down their DSLR's and pick up a Leica again or for > the > first time. > You need it for shooting at night not where the lights area aiming. > But where they are not. Hand held. Stopped down. > For capturing fast action at night. > It gets dark. People don't slow down. > They run down dark sidewalks. The other photographers can easily get it. > You > can't. Not good. I get it. I appreciate high ISO Cmos sensors when needed. as here <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=6190> I also appreciate low ISO CCD sensors when I want fine detail. (and I continue to "desire" a low ISO CCD medium format sensor) Each tool serves an appropriate purpose. If I could only have one I'd choose CCD with fast glass I feel very fortunate to have both CCD and Cmos; and the ability to choose the correct tool for the desired result. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist