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Subject: [Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:38:14 -0700
References: <9F07836ED74F1C42AA69DFBAF8A1E2F1479F0FA601@MBX1.asc.local> <42238621-8E82-4A33-ABD8-1455AE833420@frozenlight.eu> <AANLkTi=XXdphkqwHR0fYg9w=N-p3ETfRA2WF68q1MeQV@mail.gmail.com> <4C6D945B.8080502@panix.com> <AANLkTikx8bJA76VoCHhCC5zbJKVwhc+Fstnu33ajZcOC@mail.gmail.com>

Rei COULD focus that thing. And so can Tina.

Me? At some point, I put down the camera :-)


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Rei,
> Except you can't focus the damn thing...(-:
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> >  What Richard says.
> >
> > No question, Kyle's bar scene is darned impressive.
> >
> > But the M9 works very well for me, its sensor makes great images at least
> up to 1250, which is what i set as my iso limit.
> >
> > If you use the fast glass, f1.4 or f1.0, 1250 asa is like a  f2.8 zoom
> lens on a dslr set to 5,000 or 10,000 asa.
> >
> > -rei
> >
> >
> > On 08/19/2010 03:53 PM, Richard Man 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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