Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/27

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Subject: [Leica] Thoughts on Auto ISO
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:55:03 -0500
References: <C1F99534-9074-49E6-BDCC-2C3B71330B28@acm.org>

I tried it for a while on a dSLR, but I soon went back to aperture priority 
simply because that was what I was used to. When digital was noisy above ISO 
400, it seemed to make more sense (use the widest aperture and the lowest 
shutter speed feasible, and hope for an ISO of 160), but now that noise 
outdoors is getting to be a thing of the past, I kind of forgot about it.

Jeffery



On Jul 27, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> I played a bit with Auto ISO snapping away at light and dark places around 
> the house. My first reaction was "Hell, if I wanted that much automation 
> I'd get a point and shoot--well, I recently   did get one, a used Lumix 
> DMC-LX5, but it stays in aperture preferred mode. 
> 
> I took to aperture  preferred when I first got the M9 like a duck to 
> water. So, after first turning Auto ISO off, I turned it back on with 
> broad limits: minimum shutter speed 1/15--with the mass of an M9, I've 
> gotten away with 1/15 surprisingly well-- and I left the max ISO at the 
> top. While ISO above 800 was pretty awful in the days of LR2, the noise 
> reduction in LR5 is so good that I find ISO 2500 to be usable. 
> 
> I remembered some shots in broad daylight taken at ridiculously high ISO 
> because I just forgot to look. So, my final decision is to leave it in 
> Auto ISO for a week and just see what happens.
> 
> 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
> 
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