Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] C8080
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu May 6 08:27:15 2004

Believe it or not, it was 1/6th - I was shooting through banister
spindles, so I probably steadied myself with those - I used to be one of
those 1/2 guys with my Ms, but believe me, no longer....I do find,
however, that it's possible to hold some of the digitals at pretty low
shutter speeds.....

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Beddoe, Neil
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:15 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] C8080


Was that meant to be 1/60th of a second or was it really dark? If not,
you have remarkably steady hands.



-----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:01 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: [Leica] C8080


This was shot with the Olympus C8080 8 mgp p&s - which arrived on my
doorstep yesterday afternoon - at it's top iso of 400, at 1/6th of a
second at f 2.5 - handheld. Converted to B&W using my normal "workflow."
I offer it as an example of what the camera can do, not of great
photography.:-) http://gallery.leica-users.org/BDCOLENPHOTOS/Tiki

My initial impression is that if there's any underexposure at 400, the
images are pretty noisy, but that the noise pattern is surprisingly
grain-like. The metering tends, I think, to over expose about
half-a-stop, but that's easily taken care of by dialing in compensation.

The electronic viewfinder is quite good - similar to that on the E-20 -
it has manual focus, with the 'blow-up' of the center image - creaky,
but useable when autofocus won't cut it. 

The "instant on" feature really is -instant on. No hesitation or wait at
all. 

Other than that...nothing to report yet.

B. D.


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