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Subject: [Leica] 2500 iso now rant
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:13:12 +0930
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Your cats are nice, and i like seeing photos of them.  In my opinion
these would be better if they had less noise.  I'm not criticising you
at all and I'm not "bashing" Leica.  I still prefer my M8 to other
digital cameras.  I'm just not prentending it, or the M9, are perfect.

Marty


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I agree that it's the #1 area for improvement for Leica.
>>
>> In B&W, I can get much finer grain than this out of Delta 3200 or TMZ
>> at comparable EIs.
>>
>
> Yeah well, I probably could have done the shot better with a faster lens,
> and maybe with my M6 and Fuji 1600 Natura, but I was trying to see what I
> could get out of the 21mm Elmarit, (new to me) ?That's the only reason I
> posted the equipment, the shutter speed, iso and f stop. I'm pretty happy
> with the outcome.
>
> Why does the criticism here often drift ?from the quality of the shot, or
> the accomplishment to a thrashing of Leica?
>
> I often shoot pictures that include cats and I shoot pictures that feature
> flowers. ? ?The funny thing is that some people avoid my pictures, and
> others who shoot the same subjects, because they "don't like cats" or 
> "don't
> like flower pictures."
>
> Hey folks, in my case, ?it aint about the cats and it certainly not about
> the flowers.
>
> ?It is about the picture, the lighting, and the composition, and seeing 
> what
> I can do with my equipment, my lack of mobility, and what is at hand to
> photograph.
>
> ?--
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
>
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