Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]" f 2.8, 70mm, 6400 ASA, 1,600 sec Leica 700." As Kyle tells us this was a bit of an accident. - didn't remember having set it to 6400 ASA And didn't need 1,600 sec to get this guy in this bar we all often shoot at P and don't pay ongoing attention to the little numbers we assume we need to be aiming and praying as we are clicking. Now photographers can capture action in the dark. No more aim and pray and hope they don't move or hope we don't jerk. We've gotten used to the aim and pray default haven't we? Lots of photographers in the past few years have gotten un used to it. Now we can shoot at Auto ISO and set it not at P or A but at M And set the exact f stop and shutter speed we want - the same setting from Bonneville salt flats in the noon day sun to the coal pit at midnight. I'm rather fond of f 5.6 at 125th but I go in waves on that. I do think soon there will be a Leica M9s. A 12 mp Leica m9 with larger pixel sites so we can shoot in the dark bars at midnight. And ask the guy to jump. Levitate. In the dark. We don't need 19 mps. We need street camera not a catalog camera. We need a bar camera. I could get used to stopping action in dim light fast. When the M9s comes out I bet Kyle gets one and forgets which closet he keeps his Nikons in. And I bet I do too. And quite a few of us. And quite a few high profile photographers. I'll just have to start rolling old ladies on Riverside drive coming home from the opera. Do people carry cash any more? I'll steal their laptops. I mean ipods. I mean ipads. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner