Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/101119_194235.jpg.html Friday night a few nights ago I was walking down Central Park West by the Planetarium in the early evening with my 50mm f1.8 on my new D700 still getting used to my new camera and new format which for me is really a new lease on life. "City tree's just seem to find out early" Seems to be the ongoing theme as I don't pass flowers any more since this Lug Gallery started for me without clicking one if they are at all interesting. I didn't shoot them much before. My loss. Flowers out of context. Flowers lost and alone. I'm liking stuff like that now. I just loaded this on to my laptop and its really grabbing me so here it is. Normally I like to see it a few weeks later and then know its good. I'm at Aperture priority 1/80 s at f/2.8 mode. When my camera meter system needs more than a 80th of a second the iso goes up instead. And I'm stopped down one to f2.8 so sharpen up any focus or optical errors. In most my shooting over the years I've liked to stop down two. Which is what most schools I think tell you to do. I've done it anyway. And here this is night shooting. Where you'd think maybe you'd need go just have it wide open and be there. A big difference between shooting full frame now and cropped before is the shutter default I set it on now I usually get. Night shooting before I'd never get it. Unless I was shooting a bright shop window. I'd be in "aim and pray" mode most of the dark time. Now I do. And stopped down one or two. If you said this would be happening a couple of years ago I'd have called you liar. The punch line is the camera only asked for iso 3600. Way below its topped out setting of 6400 which I'm now often shooting at. Instead of a measly 1600 cropped. And 6400 now gives me much better results than my topped out 1600 in my deep dark cropped past. From which I will never return unless the camera is the size of a Rollei 35 and my honeymoon with my D700 is far from over. To me its interesting how it about does not look like a night picture but day. And the amazing variety of light sources making for all kinds of color casts and cross overs that you just don't get during the day; unless something is horribly wrong. It used to me that with film with exposures over a second you'd get all kinds of surprise colors from reciprocity failure of the various layers but they fixed that in the early 90's. And the digital sensors in the 2000's were fixed even better. I bet that phony software which imitates various films don't account for that. The kids who came up with the algorithms had no memory of those days. When night shooting meant all kinds of nifty surprises. Oh! CPW means Central Park West. Only real cool people know that. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb