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Subject: [Leica] B&W Leica? Higher ISO
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:11:58 -0500
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Jay, High ISO did not even come close to being an issue when I bought the
M9.

I own several M lenses that I enjoy, that give me great results shooting
the cats here on the Serengeti plains of Natchitoches.

I'm happy that you can shoot at dusk in India, and Mark can shoot running
people in Manhattan.  I really am.

It doesn't make me cry that I do differently.  I'm not wringing my hands
over the issue.

I've not come close to becoming an expert with my M9, but I'm liking every
moment of it.

That's the difference.  You and Mark crow about a camera that you have to
fiddle and futz with and play with twelve menus, that is noisy and heavy
and the lens mounts the wrong way.  And you have to have the best and the
fastest, but you know, I don't care what you do.  If that is what you want,
so be it.

I'll take pictures, and nod at you, and say, nice camera, all the while
loving my decision to buy the M9.


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> No it is not - but it helps a lot. Here is a shot (and the next one)
> at ISO6400 after sunset in a village:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0870-EditBW.jpg.html
>
> See it large - the result, given the conditions ( very low light,
> shooting into a house, etc - if you look, the lights are on inside) is
> more than acceptable, there is no smearing, the grain is natural and
> the black and white tones are as good as you can get - in fact, most
> people who have seen the print cannot believe that it is ISO6400.
> IMHO, it is indispensable in both my favourite genres of street and
> wildlife. In the former it allows you to shoot in very low light with
> impunity, and in the latter it allows for very high shutter speeds to
> capture action in indifferent light, which is the norm in the dense
> Indian forests. I just leave my Nikon D700 routinely in Auto ISO mode
> with an upper limit of 6400, and change the minimum shutter speed
> depending on the lens/subject.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:14 AM, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
> > Obviously there is a place for high ISO (actually high ASA the way we are
> > talking about it) but it is not the be all and end all in image
> quality...
> >
> > john
>
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Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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