Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digi Low Light
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:36:11 -0400
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030629090459.035ab550@mail.infoave.net>

At 10:15 AM 6/29/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 07:10 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>>Digital is not there yet for low-light, but it's getting there.  I love 
>>the depth of field of the M lenses and doubt that can be duplicated in 
>>digital, but you never know!
>
>I would have agreed with Tina on this without reservation until my recent 
>acquisition of a Canon 10D, after playing with - er, evaluating - one 
>owned by friend Bill Nelsch.
>
>Its low light performance is, in a word, excellent. To my eyes it matches 
>film through ISO 800, and produces usable if pixelated images at ISO 1600. 
>At ISO 400 it is at least as good as film for my purposes, perhaps better.


That's great news, Will!  I can't wait to try it out. Hope UPS gets here 
early tomorrow!

Tina


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