Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/19

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Subject: [Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:25:14 -0400
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That's why we have 1.0 lenses.  In all of my years of shooting film, I used
a few rolls of 1600 film and even pushed it to 3200 to shoot at night by
candlelight.  I used ISO 400 90% of the time.  The M9 is fine at 400 or even
640 but you rarely need it with 1.0 or 1.4 lenses.

Tina

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:

> Why? No offense to Kyle as I am a BIG fan of his photography but when is
> the
> last time you see a ISO 100000 PRINT that you want to hang in your house?
>
> M9 does reasonably clean ISO1600. If they up it to 3200, that will be good
> enough for most people.
>
> What the heck am I saying? The M9 is more than good enough for just about
> anybody :-)
>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu
> >wrote:
>
> > How I wish an M8 or M9 could do even half of this :-(
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu
> > http://www.greatpix.eu
> > http://www.nathanfoto.com
> > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
> >
> > YNWA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> >
> > > full res of a shot from last night at 1/100 sec f 2.8 iso 25,600 with a
> > tokina 28mm on the Leica D700:
> > >
> > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/absinthe-25600.jpg
> > >
> > > it was pretty darn dark in there. if you can see it, you can shoot it,
> > and at something of a reasonable shutter speed as well.
> > >
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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