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Subject: [Leica] IMG: what's happening with the vertical blue line? sensor failure?
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 08:34:54 +0200
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George is spot. This is exactly my experience with the M8. Low light = hit 
or miss. Still worth trying because the hits are beautiful, usually.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA









On Oct 11, 2013, at 9:29 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> 
> On Oct 10, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
> 
>> In this image:
>> 
>> <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/32225777_wkgvQx#!i=2825025517&k=n3D8gVM&lb=1&s=O>
>> 
>> There's a clearly visible vertical blue line toward the left side of the 
>> image and another vertical one where the dark chimney meets the bright 
>> side of the building.
>> 
>> What's going on here? Do I have a sensor going bad on me? I haven't seen 
>> these in other images
>> 
>> Shot with an M8 at iso 1250.
> 
> Pushing the limits of a digital photographic sensor
> will inevitably present some serious ugly.
> I've seen variations of these "artifacts"
> from various sensors pushed beyond their limits;
> including my M8;
> which continues to perform beautifully
> under less stressful circumstances.
> 
> Low light and pushing shadows open = visual unpleasantries
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
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In reply to: Message from abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] IMG: what's happening with the vertical blue line? sensor failure?)
Message from george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: what's happening with the vertical blue line? sensor failure?)