Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2010-01-31-22:04:52 Kyle Cassidy: > -- Which is how, that afternoon, I shot this photo of Comic Book > Illustrator Mike Kaluta at a crazy unheard of film speed. Only when I'd > left did it strike me as odd that my shutter speed was 1,600 second. "Aw > dang!" I thought when I realized what I'd done, "I ruined that one". > > Well, maybe not! 6400 asa isn't nearly as grainy as I'd been expecting it > was. Here's a full frame 1600 pixels high: > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/whoops.jpg Cool. And you didn't have to worry about motion blur... :-) So under these circumstances 6400 from a D700 looks pretty similar to 1250 from an M9. And Leica "1250" is usually about as actually light-sensitive as other people's "1600", at least per some dpreview articles I read awhile back. So a good solid two stops' advantage from the D700. I can believe that, and can happily live with it while using my M9 for the other advantages the M9 has for me. I find your result both impressive, and less mystically, impossibly so than some reports had suggested. Hell, the M8 was already better in low light than any film I used to use. Anything else is gravy. Mostly: congratulations on not having had to re-shoot. -Jeff