Noisy digital shadows - was: Re: [Leica] re: digital treadmill

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

B.D. 

>>....one of the reasons that I've gone with digital, is that
digital tends to capture more information in low light than does film.<<

You're going to have to explain that one to me. I always though that the
amount of information in low light -- or "shadow detail" for those of us
in the Pleistocene Era -- depended on exposure? As far as I know
negative film still beats a DSLR in dynamic range. 

DaveR