[Leica] accidentally left the ISO setting on 6400 -- dang!

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

Indeed! Have a look at my Gallery post from last year, son and dog at 6400.

                
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/f1point4+and+be+there/Dan+and+Salty.jpg.html

Click on symbol to see a *really* big version which shows how low the level 
of color noise is.

?howard


On Jan 31, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 
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