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Subject: [Leica] Left the ISO setting on 6400 - dang!
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:27:14 -0500

> 
>> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:04:52 -0500
>> From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
>> Subject: [Leica] accidentally left the ISO setting on 6400 -- dang!
>> To: "lug at leica-users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> 
>> Friday I was taking some photos in a bar (what else is new) and I
>> had the ISO cranked to 6400 on my Leica d700 and I was so ... er ...
>> enthusiastic? ... er "well cared for by my friends?" ... er ...
>> overserved? that the next morning when I got up, I totally forgot
>> I'd taken the ISO off of 400 (which I never do) and ended up going
>> on about my business that day.
>> 
>> -- Which is how, that afternoon, I shot this photo of Comic Book
>> Illustrator Mike Kaluta at a crazy unheard of film speed. Only when
>> I'd left did it strike me as odd that my shutter speed was 1,600
>> second. "Aw dang!" I thought when I realized what I'd done, "I
>> ruined that one".
>> 
>> Well, maybe not! 6400 asa isn't nearly as grainy as I'd been
>> expecting it was. Here's a full frame 1600 pixels high:
>> 
>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/whoops.jpg
>> 
>> And here's a full resolution of the eye:
>> 
>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/whoops2.jpg
>> 
>> Imagine what the next iteration of cameras will bring us -- the
>> ability to choose to stop action in dark situations, not a whole new
>> world, but a new island maybe.
>> 
>> f 2.8, 70mm, 6400 asa, 1,600 sec Leica 700.
>> 
>> 
>> keep pushing that shutter button
>> 
>> kc
> 
> Hi Kyle,
> Great illustration of the high ISO low noise capability of the D700. I
> set mine on auto ISO topping out at ISO 6400 and I don't even think
> about it any more.
> I'm sure the Canon 5d MkII is equally good for the Canon lovers on the
> list!
> Great pix BTW.
> Cheers
> Howard
> 

For sure its ISO 6400 and be there time and not only are Nikon and Canon
shooters enjoying that inalienable digital right but I'm sure soon so will
Leica M shooters.
All we need are 12 lousy MP's.*


[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner


*megapixels**

** 4000 x 3000 = 12,000,000 pixels





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