Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cool ! It's not a camera you've bought, it's a cat - can see in the dark Must purr in your hands ;-) Ph back in Metz, which means Metz the city, not the flash manufacturer ;-) Le 21 nov. 10 ? 23:14, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/101119_194235.jpg.html > > Friday night a few nights ago I was walking down Central Park West > by the > Planetarium in the early evening with my 50mm f1.8 on my new D700 > still > getting used to my new camera and new format which for me is really > a new > lease on life. > > "City tree's just seem to find out early" Seems to be the ongoing > theme as I > don't pass flowers any more since this Lug Gallery started for me > without > clicking one if they are at all interesting. I didn't shoot them much > before. My loss. Flowers out of context. Flowers lost and alone. I'm > liking > stuff like that now. > I just loaded this on to my laptop and its really grabbing me so > here it is. > Normally I like to see it a few weeks later and then know its good. > > > I'm at Aperture priority 1/80 s at f/2.8 mode. > When my camera meter system needs more than a 80th of a second the > iso goes > up instead. And I'm stopped down one to f2.8 so sharpen up any focus > or > optical errors. In most my shooting over the years I've liked to > stop down > two. Which is what most schools I think tell you to do. I've done it > anyway. > And here this is night shooting. Where you'd think maybe you'd need > go just > have it wide open and be there. > > A big difference between shooting full frame now and cropped before > is the > shutter default I set it on now I usually get. Night shooting > before I'd > never get it. Unless I was shooting a bright shop window. I'd be in > "aim and > pray" mode most of the dark time. > > Now I do. And stopped down one or two. > If you said this would be happening a couple of years ago I'd have > called > you liar. > > The punch line is the camera only asked for iso 3600. > Way below its topped out setting of 6400 which I'm now often > shooting at. > Instead of a measly 1600 cropped. And 6400 now gives me much better > results > than my topped out 1600 in my deep dark cropped past. From which I > will > never return unless the camera is the size of a Rollei 35 and my > honeymoon > with my D700 is far from over. > > To me its interesting how it about does not look like a night > picture but > day. > And the amazing variety of light sources making for all kinds of > color casts > and cross overs that you just don't get during the day; unless > something is > horribly wrong. It used to me that with film with exposures over a > second > you'd get all kinds of surprise colors from reciprocity failure of the > various layers but they fixed that in the early 90's. And the digital > sensors in the 2000's were fixed even better. I bet that phony > software > which imitates various films don't account for that. The kids who > came up > with the algorithms had no memory of those days. When night shooting > meant > all kinds of nifty surprises. > > > > Oh! CPW means Central Park West. > Only real cool people know that. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > NO ARCHIVE