[Leica] Jammed EI 6400

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Amazing really: I prefer the conversion to b/w as the colour seems 
strange, but the performance of the camera would seem to match the 
singers.
On 06/03/2005, at 9:03 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> Well, I'll probably get lambasted for posting a Nikon digital image
> instead of a Leica one, but to my defense, I have posted a Leica image 
> or
> two in the past.
>
> This time I just didn't have time for processing, scanning, dust 
> removal,
> Photoshop work etc. I'm going away.
>
> So I used digital. I still didn't want to use a flash so I set the
> exposure index at what Nikon calls "HI-2". That's two stops less than 
> ISO
> 1600, or in other words EI 6400. I've never even bothered to try film 
> at
> 6400. It just won't cut it. Just too contrasty.
>
> The first shot is color:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Louice-jam-sessions/DSC_0828
>
> Now the green cast was there. Earlier I've mentioned a string of 
> Christmas
> tree lights ... this is it.
>
> The second one is the same shot, but I converted to a gamma 2.2 grey
> profile (went from sRGB -> 2.2 gamma grey profile). There are, I
> understand, many more sophisticated ways of doing this, I don't know 
> them.
> But I can honestly admit that there are good reasons to do so. It more 
> or
> less confirms, even with an amateur attempt, that digital is better 
> than
> film in low-light. This coming from someone other than the usual group 
> who
> has always said this.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Louice-jam-sessions/DSC_0828g
>
> I'll be using film as steadily as before, but if I ever really, really
> need EI 6400, I know what I'll do.
>
> I'm curious as to what others think.
>
> Best,
> Daniel
>
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Alastair