Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/11/03 10:50:44 PM, pklein@2alpha.net writes: << This is the best of the lot, overall (my mother and a friend): http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/family/6462EmAndFriendSmall.jpg >> Peter, In my experience a digital camera reverses film speed. I had thought that if I set my Oly 5050 digital to ISO 200 or 400, I could breezily shoot EL, just as I do with my M3 and a fast Leica 50mm lens. It didn't work that way. With some experimentation I discovered that I was able to get good EL shots with the digital by setting its ISO to Auto or 64. Digitals nowadays -- whatever you pay for them -- need a lot of both light and battery power to climb up the Herter Driffeld curve -- if such a graph exists for a digital sensor. And avoid using shutter preferred mode. Use P instead, and let the digital's algorithms do the work. The 5050 is about the best of the prosumers out there now. But this is just one man's opinion. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html