Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Higher ISOs with Cmos at the expense of fine detail. At least, that's my experience. TIna On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:11 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > I don't think it is unreasonable to expect decent performance in such > conditions. > > > Certainly not unreasonable to seek a tool that delivers the results you > seek. > Expecting high ISO performance from CCD sensors, so far, seems wishful > thinking. > >From day one the M8 has not qualified as a high ISO tool; > just as the majority of medium format digital CCD sensors have not been > high ISO tools. > > So far we find the high ISO sensors in the latest Cmos tools. > > While the M9 appears to perform significantly better than it's M8/8.2 > predecessors > it doesn't come anywhere close to the high ISO performance of current Cmos > sensors. > > Yet the M form factor has no competition. > > Compromises and trade offs. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com