[Leica] What the hell is going on"

[john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)]

You were shooting at 3200 not 32,000 ;-)

john

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Me or or the camera?
> 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> 
> 
> 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
> >>