Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am tempted too by the GRD. Limitations of "28mm" hold me back. I shot with a GR1V on and off over the years. The 28mm was always a bit too wide for my tastes. Seems we are looking for a digital Leica CLE. A digital camera grail indeed. Eric On 7/24/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > > Tom P. - I haven't made any prints from these files yet but from what > I've seen so far the noise is not a major issue though there are some > limitations. In color at ISO 1600 the noise is ugly as sin, but in > B&W it's perfectly acceptable. At 800 the color noise is OK. > > The visibility of the noise depends on the subject, too. In the shot > of my son it's not an issue at all. In the shot of the Vivian > Beaumont, it catches my eye and I would be tempted to run that file > through Noise Ninja if I was going to get serious about the image. . > > This business of what's acceptable depends highly on your frame of > reference and I think reviewers, now having seen such exceptional > results at ISO 3200 in some cameras, think anything less is > unacceptable, period. Major mistake. It all depends on the viewer, > the size of the print, the expectations of the photographer and > probably a few other things, too. > > You know, my first reaction to the camera, particularly after I > snapped the optical finder on it, was to think of the old Model-O. > It's tiny in comparison to the best cameras of the day, it uses much > smaller "film," which is going to be relatively grainy, but it seems > to have good optics, is fast operating and different. Let's just see > what we can do with it! > > Now, if it just had interchangeable lenses... > > Dick > > > > > > Thank you, Richard, for sharing the GR Digital > >photos. I own the film camera counterpart, and > >because I think it is wonderful I have been tempted to > >try the digital model. I was stopped, however, by a > >review that said one starts to see ugly noise by ISO > >200. Your images seem to disprove that. I see no > >appreciable noise until ISO 800 and at that level, and > >even at ISO 1600, the noise looks like the grain one > >might expect with film of that speed -- not ugly at > >all. Given the other pictures you have taken and not > >posted, do you agree noise is well controlled? > > Tom P. > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >