Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2016 a year when ISO what we used to call ASA hit one million and no one was kidding or lying or rumor mongering or writing science fiction. A Nikon flagship F5 you can set to?ISO 3,280,000! Other cameras companies are sure to follow and I'm sure they have already. So if you played it safe and shot at a measly 1 million I think you might to quite ok with a compact lightweight sharp as heck f 5.6 wide angle lens on your camera shooing a black cat in a coal mine at midnight as it jumps from one garbage can to another and you want to capture it in the air. We are no longer dependant on large glass lead like weights on our cameras and in our camera bags to make sure we're ok when the lights are low. Personally I've zeroed in at f1.8 and calling it modestly "fast" yet not too fast to make a lead weight out of most focal lenghts of most optics which all seem to be filled with air. The reason being the ungodly iso's I shoot at every night most of my shots are at iso 64,000! F 1.8 is 2/3's of stop slower than Summilux 1.4 speed and 1/3 of a stop faster than Summicron f2 speed. Its 1-2/3 stops slower than my old f1 Noctilux! I say f 5.6 and be there I dream about the new 28mm Summaron-M f/5.6 lens every single dark night. A thimble which takes pictures. That's what Leica used to be about! And I also say f 1.8 and be there as that's what I'm able to shoot with now Nikon wise. On 12/21/16 12:43 PM, "Jim Shulman" <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote: > For those of us in the northern hemisphere. For those down under, Happy > Mountain Elmar Day! > > > > Jim Shulman > > Wynnewood, PA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/