Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] 2500 ISO
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Wed Nov 8 19:25:59 2006
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On Nov 8, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> A sort of point. You may re-call a few weeks ago I had several 
> photographs
> sold for $750.00 each. A couple more have gone since, one of them a 
> 13X19
> flower picture shot with a 20D and Leica 80mm 1.4 lens and everything 
> set on
> automatic! :-) Just look through viewfinder, focus and go "click!" So 
> maybe
> you might understand why I have so much difficulty dealing with all the
> technical stuff.

IMHO, the automatic settings will do fine 90% to 95% or even 98% of the 
time. The technical tweaking is for those of us who are anal about the 
last 2%. of the time.

for this photo
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/artiodactyls/dash01.html

it was paying attention to the details that kept the details in the 
whitest areas of the animal's coat.  The detail isn't all that visible 
on the monitor but on an RA4 print it's all there.  Would this have 
been as good a picture if the top of the muzzle were blown out?  
Perhaps to some people it would be but not to me.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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