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: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:43:52 -0400

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.


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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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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