Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Leica M lenses on the Fuji X-Pro 1 - IMAGE SHOT @6400
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:39:34 +0530
References: <CAF8hL-HhRh8xXwaHa6oyKn822hhhyUZyC=gG9h6KVyuFuevENw@mail.gmail.com> <CBFE73B8.2777E%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

Here is one shot in the field at ISO 3200 - I usually use Auto ISO 3200 as
a standard setting - I would use Auto ISO 6400 if Fuji gave that option,
which they do not! This is with the 35mm lens at 1/18s hand held. No
sharpening, no noise reduction shot as in-camera Fine JPG:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF9946.jpg.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:19 AM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:

> So here is an image shot 6400 ISO, using, I believe, the 35 1.4 @ 1.4 on
> the Fuji XPro1. I shot in RAW, converted to JPG, did some very minor
> levels adjustment, and NO sharpening, and NO noise reduction. The one
> problem with this image, and all other RAW images shot with the Xpro, is
> that, quite obviously, Adobe has not yet got the DNG Converter worked out
> quite right for the Xpro files. For now, I am going to shoot JPGs.
>
> But in terms of the 6400 iso - I've got less than no complaints. When I am
> shooting low light images I am a., not looking for fine micro detail, or
> b., planning to carry around a loupe to examine the images. Compare this
> to any image from an M8 or M9 shot at 3200 iso, and, for that matter,
> compare it to the Fuji 1600 iso film shot in an M. It's great to demand
> clean images when shooting digital at 100 or 200 iso, or when shooting
> something like Fuji Acros, but an image at 6400?
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bdcolen/PHOTOS/060212_and_Commencement_003
> 0.jpg.html
>
>
> PS - The photo is nothing - just a demonstration.  :-)
>
>
>
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