[Leica] Cool settings ISO AUTO

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)]

Hey Mark, did you not try this with the Lika D200 when you got it? Much more 
options than the D40x.

I have the Auto ISO set up in Bank C.

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" 
Subject: [Leica] Cool settings ISO AUTO


> Please raise your hands if you're as cool as me I've got this new camera of
> mine set up, my D40X I got the day before yesterday, with my shiny 45mm 2.8
> P on it with a VERY COOL SETTING I just made up out of thin air as I walked
> down the street shooting.
> 
> There's a thing in digital shooting maybe they have it on the F6 which is
> called ISO AUTO. On other cameras they didn't have these other setting
> though I don't think which made this thing possible I'm all excited about
> will have to change my name to Mark ISO Auto Rabiner.
> 
> Which in this setting of mine gives you optimized pix like apples and
> oranges to what you had before and makes you realize what a jerk you've 
> been
> your whole digital life shooting at quadruple digit ISO's. At least me.
> 
> In the ISO auto menu:
> I set the max sensitivity for ISO 1600. That's as high as you can set that
> thing. That's our high end.
> 
> Then I set the min shudder speed for something not all that slow.
> Like 125th or 60th if its close to a normal. A safe and happy juicy shutter
> speed.
> 
> OK
> Now P mode does not work  for this I shoot in A mode but I think S works 
> for
> this kind of thing I'll try that again today.
> 
> As i'm in A mode I set the lens for one of my favorite f stops for that
> lens.
> For this 45mm on there now it would be f8.
> Yes I'm an F8 lover I admit it. Its friendly. Meaty. Yet tender.
> You're not going to miss your focus but your not going to be diffraction
> limited. Anything but that. You don't want to have to live what that
> moniker.
> 
> With my old 45GN a favorite f stop of mine was f32. But they don't make 
> that
> flavor any more over at Nikon.  (would that leave them with 31 flavors?)
> 
> But here's the flavorful part.
> I set the ISO to 100! That's right! 100!
> Not 1000! 100! BIG DIFFERENCE!!
> 
> Here's how I get away with it!: (hint: because of ISO auto.)
> 
> 
> I walk down the street with my camera.
> Day or night snow or sleet.
> What happens?
> 
> An amazing amount of shots get taken at my choice juicy setting of f8 and 
> at
> ISO 100!! And a slew of shudder speeds up to the max 1/4000 of a second
> which is why they call it a D40x no doubt.
> That's when things are sunny 16. Which believe it or not they often are. 
> And
> I realize that maybe I didn't have to waver between ISO's 1000 and 1600 for
> most my work. I don't even wanna know what stupid f stops and shudder 
> speeds
> I've been shooting with in the past out in the noon day sun like a moron in
> P mode. But that was then. This is now......
> 
> When I go on the shady side of the street (where Woody Allen always walks)
> the Raw thing in the viewfinder turns pale blue. Like the Dead Sea. Makes 
> me
> thirsty.
> 
> That means I can check it to see what ISO it got shot at.
> All shots it turns out in darker locations like the shady side of the 
> street
> get shot with a different ISO ASA as you didn't want it to go below f8 and
> you didn't want it to go below 125th so the ISO changes instead. Shot by
> Shot. Great fun!!!!
> 
> So each shot is optimized for quality. The Mark Rabiner Way!
> 
> By the way "shady side of street" equals DARK, LOW LIGHT, INDOORS.
> 
> I'll call you in the morning and tell you all about it.
> But I already did!
> 
> Is there a Leica equivalent for ISO AUTO?
> 
> You tell me! I cant find it on my IIIF!
> 
> 
> You'll just have to call me on the phone each time you do this you don't
> mind its called intellectual property or something like that.
> Some have other names for it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Harlem, NY
> 
> rabinergroup.com
> 
> 
> 
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