[Leica] The Ansonia full frame

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

Dontcha just love ISO 6400 on the D700? Here's my first of the same:

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

BTW, close inspection of your Ansonia reveals by its absence the virtue of 
VR (as with the 24-120 I was using).

?howard

On Oct 24, 2010, at 1:44 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/101023_222311.jpg.html
> 
> I shot this a few hours ago at 10:30 at night @ iso 6400 an 8th of a second
> f 3.5 with the 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 IF-ED AF-S
> I'm getting better quality new at iso 6400 then I did with a 1.5 crop at 
> iso
> 1600.
> Wow!
> 
> The The Ansonia sits there humming. From the ghosts of all the opera 
> singers
> who died there I hear. You can go bowling in the hallways. The year it
> opened it had a farm on the roof. Commissioned 1899.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ansonia
> 
> Its seven blocks from me I pass it everyday day or night and tend to click 
> a
> few every time I do. I'm sure I have a thousand clicks of the thing by now
> in all kinds of conditions.
> 
> It's on 73rd and Broadway.