Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think Leica is going to slip in the sensors made available to them. It's not like they have to re invent the shutter speed wheel. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:35:30 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600 > > The metering cell was invented in the 60s too :-) It only took Leica 20 > years to get around to it. > > Anyway, the Leica sensor (by Kodak or whoever) has different demand than > Nikon, Canon or Sony sensors (oblique microlens and absolutely best in > class > image performance etc.) The S2 sensor don't even go up to ISO 1200 without > a > fight so there is no hope there. > > If Leica gets a high ISO sensor in 2 years, that'd be great. I sort of > doubt > it though. We shall see, 2 years will be here soon enough. > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> I'm going to disagree in the sense that I predict that Leica will have >> triple digital inflationary ISO's in a couple of years. >> Iso 100,000 by December twelfth 2012. >> That's 12/12/12 >> I do think in digital r&d when we think ten years it invariably means two. >> Things are very logarithmic time wise. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >>> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:13:17 -0700 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] a shot in the dark - life at iso 25600 >>> >>> I agree we will all be shooting at ISO 128K at some points. For Leica >>> shooters? I don't know, may be in 5 - 10 years. Canonites and Nikonites >> are >>> doing them now, but Leica has different priorities. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information