[Leica] High ISOs Comparison

[telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Eric wrote:

> The day my local photo store "ate" a roll of film was the day I 
> realized
> that if the pictures were important, I wasn't handing film over to a
> minimum-wage processor.  First pictures of my first child being held 
> by my
> mom...soon after her kidney transplant, which enabled her to live long
> enough to see her grandchild.  Nothing a film credit can't replace.  :)

> ...  That's when I realized I had to go to digital
> capture to preserve what little sanity I had left.

>   My SLRs are just tools.  My M6 is a work of art.

The quality of commercial processing has been pulling me in two 
directions: digital (DMR in my case) and DIY; either way I want to be 
more involved in the process because commercial processing that is now 
accepted as 'average' isn't good enough.  Like Eric, I also find the 
high ISO settings of my DLSR to me much more than acceptable, and if it 
weren't for one thing I'd use the DMR exclusively.  That one thing is 
the SL (and SL2) viewfinder.  I like the DMR's output; I LOVE using the 
Leicaflexes.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com