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Subject: [Leica] FF sidewalk flower pot f 1/125 s at f/8.0 and be there
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:07:58 -0400

With my previous bodies which were 1.5x crop DX format Nikons D40x and D200
the auto iso topped off at 1600. But the results at iso 1600 were a bit
worse than film iso 1600 noise wise unless I took extra noise out dulling
out the fine detail. So I was able to set it so it would top out at 800
instead if I was doing more important work.
I'm betting as the software gets better I'll be able to get fuller use of
all those DX files I exposed at iso 1600 with those cameras. Since before 22
October 2010.
That's when my world went from iso 800 to 6400.
Which sounds huge but is really only a three step jump.


On 6/7/13 11:13 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote:

> What's so cool about this is that it give you a way to set a minimum 
> shutter
> speed on the X Pro-1, something not otherwise possible, and with manual 
> focus
> lenses you can zone focus in bright light, too, and still know you will get
> good exposures.  
> 
> Now, if there was only some way to lock focus magnification on in the Fuji,
> then you could use the EVF for focus and an external optical finder for
> framing.  It would be like shooting with a IIIg.  This only applies to 
> Leica
> lenses, though.  With the Fuji's it still makes sense to me go auto focus.
> 
> I've only used auto-ISO rarely, but with the good high-ISO performance of 
> many
> cameras demonstrated, I think I will use it routinely now since I know I 
> can
> establish a minimum shutter speed.
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 07, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> Great post Mark!
>> 
>> Richard for most of my shooting for many years now I use the A setting 
>> with
>> auto iso. So I'm picking the f stop. Though I am Deciding with an 
>> additianl
>> setting on the menu which shutter speed the camera should use until  it 
>> gets
>> too dark then it uses slower ones.
>> 
>> But "locking in" both the f stop and the shutter shutter speed with the 
>> "M"
>> setting can make me feel like I have more control.
>> Each camera has their auto iso parameters work differently I understand.
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/7/13 10:47 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The auto iso for me is the main reason to use digital.
>>> Also the auto iso forces  you to become familiar with your whole range 
>>> of so
>>> settings and the results they produce. In my case 64,000 is the highest
>>> range
>>> the auto iso will give you you'd have to turn off auto iso to get higher 
>>> but
>>> I
>>> simply never do that. But I do learn that 64,000 on my D700 looks like 
>>> iso
>>> 400
>>> color neg. better than iso 800 color neg. and that was pretty darned 
>>> usable
>>> or
>>> is in the present tense.
>>> 
>>> When you buy lots of cameras  nowadays the auto iso is as a default 
>>> turned
>>> on.
>>> And of course its in the M0 and I'm sure the new M's.
>>> Question is it is in the S?
>>> Would hate to make an S outa myself and guess.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 6/7/13 5:42 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Mark - You are a genius!  I just tried this method with my X Pro-1.  It
>>>> being
>>>> a dark and dismal day up here, I couldn't use f8 @ 1/125th but f2.8 at
>>>> 1/30th
>>>> with Auto ISO 6400 gave me a half dozen perfectly exposed shots taken
>>>> around
>>>> the house and out the windows with the ISO varying from 500 to 6400.
>>>> Fantastic!
>>>> 
>>>> I was using my 28 Summicron with the Fuji adapter.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm going to start using this trick for grab shots indoors and out.
>>>> Outdoors
>>>> f8 at 1/125th it will be.
>>>> 
>>>> Dick
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 07, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/130606_065203.jpg
>>>>> .h
>>>>> tml
>>>>> Or
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/lbpwzsp
>>>>> 
>>>>> 130606_065203
>>>>> 6/6/13, 6:52:23 AM sidewalk flower pot Upper West Side,
>>>>> NIKON D700, 60.0 mm f/2.8 micro Nikkor D lens,
>>>>> 1/125 s at f/8.0 @ iso 1100. Subject distance: 3.0 M.
>>>>> 
>>>>> For most of this week I locked in my camera at the M setting which I 
>>>>> don't
>>>>> use all that much at 125th at f8. But its growing on me.
>>>>> M really is not full  "Manual" because the iso is changing in the 
>>>>> light to
>>>>> match that setting.
>>>>> In that instance in Cloudy Bright it picked iso 11oo to match up with 
>>>>> the
>>>>> 1/125 s at f/8.0 setting.
>>>>> Its like dying and going to heaven. Dream come true.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think if I'd had it on P for program mode we'd be reading the fine 
>>>>> print
>>>>> on that white square thing on the right right behind the flowers.
>>>>> Which I'm 50 50 on.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>> Photography
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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