Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] iso 100.000+??
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:28:02 -0400

> You  guys are kidding, right?
> 
> As somebody who is interested in working as a documentarist, being able to 
> get
> reliable image quality at 100,000+ ISO is something to die for. Think of 
> it -
> you could make a record of virtually anything, anywhere, anytime.
> 
> To hell with flash, what if ALL photography could be 'available light'?

This is what they said in the mid fifties when the ASA of tri x went from
320 to 400.
No more need for flash.
A thing which had been invented 2 years before.
Strobe that is.
Flashbulbs were invented by Archimedes they used them in the Peloponnesian
War.



Mark William Rabiner





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