[Leica] ASA One Million+!

[Adam Bridge]

All you need, Mark, is a bright idea and you're there.

And 8 stops is 1.638 million above ASA 6400.

But who's counting?

-- 
  Adam Bridge
  abridge683 at fastmail.com

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016, at 04:46 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> I heard the guy say it and I was not sure if I was hearing things.
> Last night at a Nikon D5/ D500 introduction they were giving at a secret
> high tech B&H room upstairs.
> "1 point 6 4 million" he said.
> And he was talking about the D500 which is DX cropped but cost two grand.
> He'd already talked about the D5 full frame flagship about out and cost
> 6.5
> grand.  Who pays that kind of money for a camera body? :)
> I didn't hear him say the word "million" when giving out the specks on
> that
> one. But looked it up just now and found it. ISO Three Million!
> (Great for shooting the dark side of the moon at midnight without a
> rocket
> ship.)
> 
> You numbers guys: how many f stops more is 3,000,ooo than the measly 6400
> cruising speed iso I'm topped off at now but which I do a good amount of
> my
> shooting walking home from movies at night. And can shoot anything I can
> see. No street lights have to be anywhere near.
> Inquiring Rabs wants to know.
> 
> I'm guessing I can shoot a black cat in a coal mine at midnight springing
> through the air at an imaginary moth frozen solid mid leap in near total
> darkness. That's my guess. Stopped down to 5.6. Every hair on its back
> frozen.
> Its the future folks.
> Star Trek rules and Star Wars is Mickey Mouse.
> 
> 
> In the past years the flagship Nikon camera went up to around a half a
> million. So that's what kind of leap has been made.
> 
> "At iso 1.64 million you get plenty of noise" the guy said.
> "as it is 1.64 million what do you want?
> I'd like to know what iso I could be shooting with to get the same kind
> of
> results I'm getting now at 6400. Which is  2 stops more than the 1600 I'd
> been shooting at with film. Neopan 1600. No longer made.
> 
> 
> 
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
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