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Subject: [Leica] (Was: some tests at 128, 000 asa) Now: from the bottom of the scale
From: r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Tue Oct 28 18:19:05 2008
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC80308A99EF2@exchange8.asc.local> <07DF090D-3295-46ED-B27E-2C3C73C287A0@bex.net>

Mighty nice color you've got there Howard.  Which lens, may I ask?   
Some of those shots look pretty wide.


Regards,

Dick
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On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Howard Ritter wrote:

> Actually, as I figure it, Kyle's images were taken at ISO 25,600  
> (two settings beyond 6400, the camera's highest numerated setting).
>
> To give equal time to the darkness-challenged, here are a few I took  
> today in rare NW Ohio bright sunshine with my "Leica" D700 (if it  
> had been wearing Solms glass it would've been a Leicon) at one stop  
> *below* ISO 200, the camera's lowest numerated setting?equivalent to  
> ISO 100?for astronauts on the surface of the Moon, perhaps, or at  
> any rate 256 times slower than Kyle's. (Full disclosure: some of the  
> images are at ISO 200.)
>
> C&C welcome: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/D700/
>
> Side Cut Park, along the Maumee River (largest of the Great Lakes  
> tributaries) is part of the Toledo-Lucas County Metropark system.  
> It's named for the "side cut" extension of the Miami-Erie Canal  
> connecting the main canal with the city of Maumee. Three of the  
> original six locks are preserved in the park and shown in my photos.
>
> --howard
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>
>> Sweet barking cheese!
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah. On the new Leica d700 there are two settings beyond 3200 asa
>> "you're kidding" and "there be dragons".
>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] some tests at 128,000 asa)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] (Was: some tests at 128, 000 asa) Now: from the bottom of the scale)