Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/08

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Subject: [Leica] lurker speaks re: High ISO thread
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Dec 8 22:35:36 2006

As far as I know Leica made no such claim.  I think this was a wish of some 
one hee ar on another list.

Gene


-------------- Original message from "Robert Jagitsch" 
<robert.jagitsch@gmail.com>: -------------- 


> I have had many digital cameras over the years, going back about 8 or 
> 9 years. And many more film cameras going back 30. I currently have 3 
> digital and 3 film. They are all ultimately just tools to do a job, 
> and they all have individual idiosyncrasies. Each one may require 
> slightly different methods or usage to get the 'best' performance. In 
> addition, each user may have differing opinions of what 'best' is. 
> 
> Tina's comparison showed me something I never would have thought of 
> (using a lower ISO and underexpose) in order to reduce noise. This 
> nugget made the thread valuable to me. 
> 
> In my case, I have no plans to use an M8, if I acquire one, at ISO 
> 2500. I would not remove the M8 from my wish list just because of 
> Tina's comparison. 
> 
> But I almost certainly would try the above trick. 
> 
> Removing the M8 from my wish list because of one comparo at ISO 2500 
> would be akin to saying I have removed the Ferrari 360 from my wish 
> list because it doesn't accelerate from 140 to 200 quite as fast as a 
> Porsche 997 Turbo. I don't plan on accelerating from 140 to 200 more 
> than 1% of the time, so that test is not relevant to me. ;) 
> 
> Lastly, I would like to see where the factory claimed that ISO 2500 
> performance would be equal to Canon 5D performance at ISO 3200. What 
> did the factory claim, can someone point me to it? 
> 
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