Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been saying this for a while. The world is not getting darker, right? Didn't most of us learn on "slow" films between 100 and 400 ISO? I still see no reason for anything over 3200. I'm not a coal miner shooting photos of black cats while at work nor are most of us on the LUG. I'm sure one person out there could make regular use of it but if digital weren't around we'd still be pushing film up to 3200 and 6400 to get our grainy yet great photos we love. To freeze motion at night? Again, why? Life isn't static, so why should our photography be? I always hate these tack sharp photos that folks show of helicopter blades perfectly frozen and straight as if the aircraft is going to fall from the sky. Some things just look unnatural when frozen above 1/1000 second. But that's my opinion. I love the fact that I can get a nice clean 800ISO with my M9 as long as I do the work to properly expose the frame. walking around center city Philly at night shooting a 35 Lux at f/2 and 1/30 second is perfect. All i have to do is focus and imagine Dr. Ted yelling at me to shoot, not to fiddle with the camera and all its trappings. I think this high ISO craze is BS but again, that's my opinion. I also KNOW it is spoiling a lot of photo students out there who don't know how to expose a frame without the camera telling them every single thing during and after (chimping) the shot. I'm waiting for this wave of mediocrity to sweep into the professional world and then the employment opportunities to open up to folks who learned how to do this on K64 with a spotmatic that had a broken light meter. Ok, mumble, mumble, metaphorical lawn, mumble mumble. I'll get off my soapbox. Phil Forrest > > If I could 2/3 more "speed" by using a B&W sensor I could achieve > > what ISO 306.000 or so? > > > > Or a clean IS 18,600 or so > > > > WHY? > > > > This scene is illuminated by the moonlight reflected from my cat's > > eye? At what point doe it get to be overkill?