[Leica] B&W Leica? Higher ISO

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

No it is not - but it helps a lot. Here is a shot (and the next one)
at ISO6400 after sunset in a village:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0870-EditBW.jpg.html

See it large - the result, given the conditions ( very low light,
shooting into a house, etc - if you look, the lights are on inside) is
more than acceptable, there is no smearing, the grain is natural and
the black and white tones are as good as you can get - in fact, most
people who have seen the print cannot believe that it is ISO6400.
IMHO, it is indispensable in both my favourite genres of street and
wildlife. In the former it allows you to shoot in very low light with
impunity, and in the latter it allows for very high shutter speeds to
capture action in indifferent light, which is the norm in the dense
Indian forests. I just leave my Nikon D700 routinely in Auto ISO mode
with an upper limit of 6400, and change the minimum shutter speed
depending on the lens/subject.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:14 AM, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> 
wrote:

> Obviously there is a place for high ISO (actually high ASA the way we are
> talking about it) but it is not the be all and end all in image quality...
>
> john