Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All you need, Mark, is a bright idea and you're there. And 8 stops is 1.638 million above ASA 6400. But who's counting? -- Adam Bridge abridge683 at fastmail.com On Tue, Feb 9, 2016, at 04:46 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I heard the guy say it and I was not sure if I was hearing things. > Last night at a Nikon D5/ D500 introduction they were giving at a secret > high tech B&H room upstairs. > "1 point 6 4 million" he said. > And he was talking about the D500 which is DX cropped but cost two grand. > He'd already talked about the D5 full frame flagship about out and cost > 6.5 > grand. Who pays that kind of money for a camera body? :) > I didn't hear him say the word "million" when giving out the specks on > that > one. But looked it up just now and found it. ISO Three Million! > (Great for shooting the dark side of the moon at midnight without a > rocket > ship.) > > You numbers guys: how many f stops more is 3,000,ooo than the measly 6400 > cruising speed iso I'm topped off at now but which I do a good amount of > my > shooting walking home from movies at night. And can shoot anything I can > see. No street lights have to be anywhere near. > Inquiring Rabs wants to know. > > I'm guessing I can shoot a black cat in a coal mine at midnight springing > through the air at an imaginary moth frozen solid mid leap in near total > darkness. That's my guess. Stopped down to 5.6. Every hair on its back > frozen. > Its the future folks. > Star Trek rules and Star Wars is Mickey Mouse. > > > In the past years the flagship Nikon camera went up to around a half a > million. So that's what kind of leap has been made. > > "At iso 1.64 million you get plenty of noise" the guy said. > "as it is 1.64 million what do you want? > I'd like to know what iso I could be shooting with to get the same kind > of > results I'm getting now at 6400. Which is 2 stops more than the 1600 I'd > been shooting at with film. Neopan 1600. No longer made. > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information