Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I prefer using fast lenses and lower ISOs. There is something about a photo shot at 1.0 or 1.2 or 1.4 that sets it apart from those zoom shots at 5.0. (Bokeh maybe?) 800 or 1600 used to be considered high ISO and I still think that's a good limit. Even those fabulous 240000 ISO shots start to break down in the shadows when you examine them at 100%. I have a Canon 1DMII and a Canon 5DMII and I really dislike the files I get from them - high ISO or not. Too much CA, no details in the shadows, less dynamic range. If I hadn't seen Leica files, I would probably love them. Tina On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 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. > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > > > > From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:01:18 -0700 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W Leica? Higher ISO > > > > A Noctilux at F1 at 1/500 second = Nikon F5.6 (wide open zoom lens) lens > @1/15 > > Second. Take that down as much as you want, and it gets worse... > > Hand holding at slow shutter speeds is HARD. HARD and average amateur > Nikon > > users, in the same sentence is stupid. > > > > That is why Nikon needs high ISO performance.....slow lenses..... > > > > OTOH, not too many people have $11K to spend on a lens..... F1.4 is more > > like it, and then the equation gives F1.4 @ 1/250 second... not so > bad.... > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com