Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You should really give the auto iso a shot its ok shooting 800 or 1600 and you get what you get but when you look back at your shots and realize than many of them could have been done at 200 or 400 then it does bit in the craw. with the auto iso you're always shooting at the minimum iso that you get get by on every shot you do. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:10:09 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Chris Williams in New York; Leicas are Stacked. > > 2010-10-21-16:09:32 Richard Man: >> As much as I love my M9 and also the E-3, above ISP1600 is not so good. > > Well, yeah. ISO 1250 from the M9 is pretty reliably usable. (And I > remember reading some test which figured out that the actual light > sensitivity of an M8 or M9 at an indicated 1250 was about the same as > a Canon DSLR at an indicated 1600). > > M9 ISO 2500 I consider firmly in "sometimes you get lucky" territory. > > The M8 at 1250 is usually pretty good in daylight, but not so good in > warm light if you try to adjust for color temperature. The blue > channel gets noisy first. > > -J > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information