Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Digilux 2 @ 1600 :-)
From: attinasi at mac.com (Marc Attinasi)
Date: Sat Sep 4 06:40:02 2004
References: <CC0EBB4C-FD51-11D8-B2A1-0003938051BC@snet.net> <C7A04B3C91C7F9AD527C38F8@hindolveston.reid.org> <000401c4917a$9c3fa1b0$87d86c18@ted> <41381876.3060303@netscape.net> <001401c491f8$f2ab5c50$87d86c18@ted>

It would be nice to see some of your shots, Ted.

How was the auto-focus in such low light? Is manual focus at all useful 
on the Digilux 2 in very low light?

I've used the Canon DRebel at ISO 800, underexposing by several stops 
shooting night scenes. The shadow noise just kills me - have to find 
one of those magic filters I guess.

Here's an anecdote for ya: I was at a concert recently and the guy in 
front of me was shooting pics on his tiny digital P&S. His flash was 
going off but doing nothing to illuminate the stage, 40 feet away :-) 
Well when the shots came up on the LCD I could see that they looked 
fine! Even the super-duper light show pictures looked decent. I'm sure 
those were underexposed by more than two stops...

Cheers!
- marc


On Sep 3, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> ted said:
>>>> As many of you know on the Digilux 2 it's highest ASA is shown as 
>>>> 400.
> Well
>> that's true. However, if you set it at 400 and set the EV button to 2 
>> stops
>> under exposed producing theoretically 1600, the camera along with PS 
>> after
>> down loading the memory card to computer produces some quite 
>> acceptable
>> images.<<<<<<<
>



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Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Leica Digilux 2 @ 1600 :-))