[Leica] High ISO Shot D4 M240

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Was occurring to me last night as I'm walking down the sidewalk is in a way
things have stayed the same.
Though perceived as an unobtainable high ticket item an M6 cost what an F3
cost and an M4 cost about what an F2 cost. And son on back in time.

Now the top of the Line Nikon cost $6,000 and the top of the line Leica cost
$6,950. I do think that if somebody could swing a D4 they could wait for one
more paycheck to come in and get an M240.

And its not as if the New digital M's are feats of low tech engineering
(cloth shutter no AF) which seem like a lot of money when you can get High
tech engineering from Nikon or Canon for about the same money.
That was the case before.

One could say the problem is if you want to get a handsome set of new Leica
glass to complete a very filled out system than that's way bigger bucks than
a case full of the Nikon Canon glass one guy buy on a whim at the end of
every month

Thing is we can still go back a few decades and get used Leica glass at
whatever price point we choose.


On 6/24/13 1:29 AM, "Howard Cummer" <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Jayanand,
> The blacks are impressively noise free. What noise reduction did you apply
> please?
> A curious D800E owner wants to know! :-)
> Howard
>  
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:07:40 +0530
> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Leica] High ISO Shot
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>, PSM
> 
> I took the Nikon D4 for its first night outing yesterday to the
> Parthasarathy Temple at Triplicane, mainly to test its low light shooting
> credentials. I will post more later, but here is a shot at ISO12800, the
> only one I have processed yet, with an old lens, the Nikkor 35mm f2D. The
> only lighting is from a couple of small shops on the right side of the
> photograph:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/ParthaFestN-2013
> 0623-734.jpg.html
> 
> Please see LARGE
> 
> Comments & criticism, as ever, welcome
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
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