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Subject: [Leica] What the hell is going on"
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:12:01 -0800
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Me or or the camera?

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Jan 1, 2014, at 9:10 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> Exaggerating by a factor of 10?
> 
> john
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> I have a Lumix DMC-LX5 that I bought from a LUG member. It's ISO goes up
>> to an apparently ridiculous ISO 128,000. The picture I recently published 
>> (Cat
>> Bed) was shot as ISO 32,000. It was noisy as hell and I had to apply much 
>> LR
>> noise reduction to it.
>> 
>> On New Year's Eve I took a bunch of shots in a dimly lit restaurant at 
>> 128,000.
>> They showed absolutely no noise when viewed in LR at 1:1. When I
>> discovered this, today, I took a set of test shots from ISO 8000 through
>> 128000 at the same aperture. The shutter speed doubled at each step as it 
>> is
>> supposed to. Again, when I examined the shots, the noise peaked sharply at
>> ISO 32000 an fell off at either side of it.
>> 
>> I'm delighted to be able to shoot at 128000, but I ask: "What the hell is 
>> going
>> on?)
>> 
>> Herb
>> 
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 650-326-8204
>> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] What the hell is going on")
Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] What the hell is going on")