Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Herbert, Really nice good shot with this small camera, but you say at ISO 3200 and the EXIF shows 200.... ? cheers Lluis El 17/12/2011, a las 7:27, Herbert Kanner escribi?: > Having lost my darkroom and, by now, probably my darkroom skills, I > no longer consider film, and therefore a fair collection of > pocketable cameras, e.g. Rollei 35, are now paper weights until > sold. So, what to do for the camera one always has with one--no, I > don't have an iPhone and no intention of getting one. > > Before deciding to invest in a full-frame digital camera, I bought > Lightroom and a "junk" camera, a Nikon Coolpix S610 to help me > decide whether I would be happy in the digital world. Then came the > decision as to which camera, and as I wrote before, remembering how > much I loved my M6, I took the hideous financial plunge and bought > an M9 body. > > Recently, I started brooding about the fact that I should start > having a camera with me all the time, and am emotionally incapable > of risking even cosmetic damage to a $7K device. Besides, the M9, > while light, small, and handy, is just not, to me, a wear it all the > time camera. > > What to get? Most cameras that produce RAW are expensive enough to > cause marital problems and I don't think any could be called pocket > size--possibly one of the Ricoh models, but I'm damned if I'll pay > that price for a camera that doesn't come with a viewfinder. > > Finally, I started to reconsider that miserable little Nikon. It > took about an hour to find all the menus, disable almost all > automatic features, and get its behavior to approximate that of a > film point and shoot. So, the only auto feature I left in is color > balance, since that would minimize the amount of color adjustment > needed in LR. Next, I set it to do only center-weighted focus, with > a focus lock, which is also an exposure lock, when the shutter > release is pushed to a point of resistance. It took me a long time > to discover the menu for setting ISO manually. I then was pleased to > see that ISO value always shows on the screen. Also shutter speed > and stop show when the release is pressed to the resistance point. > ISO change is the way to control shutter speed because the stop > range is small. So, with all of these settings, the camera becomes > usable! Finally, there is a macro mode, which will be helpful with > flowers. > > I was surprised at how low the noise level is at ISO 3200--a bit > better than the M9 at 2400. > > A tribute to the near death of this year's fall colors is here: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Last+fall+colors.jpg.html > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information