Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I readily confess to not often looking at cat photos. Occasionally I do post flower photos and I often look at those from others. I just checked 12,000 files in Lightroom and found that I have shot just 4 at ISO 2500 ! and almost everything from ISO 640 and down. In my opinion the exposure decision (underexposure is death) and the quality of the available light are large factors in how well high ISO shots work. My experience, echoed by others is that the M9 does about a stop better than the M8 and Lightroom Three probably improves both by at least that factor. Generally well accepted that Nikon especially has very capable CMOS sensors for tose very high ISOs and excellent noise reduction in camera. That's fine and we have a number of fine shooters here that exploit that in their work. Personally as just a Leica M shoote,r 640 is fine nearly all of the time and I use up to 1000 without hesitation if needed. For anyone interested, I reposted an M9 shot at ISO 2000. No cats, all flowers. This is uncropped and processed with just a little care in Lightroom 3. No third party noise reduction. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hoppyman/2/M92000.jpg.html Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 16 August 2010 13:37, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I agree that it's the #1 area for improvement for Leica. > > > > In B&W, I can get much finer grain than this out of Delta 3200 or TMZ > > at comparable EIs. > > > > Yeah well, I probably could have done the shot better with a faster lens, > and maybe with my M6 and Fuji 1600 Natura, but I was trying to see what I > could get out of the 21mm Elmarit, (new to me) That's the only reason I > posted the equipment, the shutter speed, iso and f stop. I'm pretty happy > with the outcome. > > Why does the criticism here often drift from the quality of the shot, or > the accomplishment to a thrashing of Leica? > > I often shoot pictures that include cats and I shoot pictures that feature > flowers. The funny thing is that some people avoid my pictures, and > others who shoot the same subjects, because they "don't like cats" or > "don't > like flower pictures." > > Hey folks, in my case, it aint about the cats and it certainly not about > the flowers. > > It is about the picture, the lighting, and the composition, and seeing > what > I can do with my equipment, my lack of mobility, and what is at hand to > photograph. > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >