Dark dark days 9/365
Knowing fully well that unpacking is going to take most of daylight hours out of the equation and after reading the review here indergaard.net/2013/10/11/one-year-with-a-leica-monochrom... I wasn't too bothered. Until I uploaded the files. He was shooting with much more available light and without two toddlers in tow (with their own agenda, even dragging me to restart the walk, little people are not very patient). Forgetting that, I was too optimistic. Any, I mean *any* mistake in exposure means I can throw that image away. The noise is considerable or actually way better than many dSLR etc but not to be discounted. I do not really mind noise as such in BW images but editing the file becomes a very restricted joyless process ;-) Especially when subject is already kind of boring :-P After using 8000 and 10000 ISO for a while and today finding this www.reddotforum.com/content/2015/06/bw-iso-showdown-leica... I do think I'll stick to the limit of not going past 6400. But, being me, I will for sure try 10000 in a well lit area, just to see how that goes :-D
Dark dark days 9/365
Knowing fully well that unpacking is going to take most of daylight hours out of the equation and after reading the review here indergaard.net/2013/10/11/one-year-with-a-leica-monochrom... I wasn't too bothered. Until I uploaded the files. He was shooting with much more available light and without two toddlers in tow (with their own agenda, even dragging me to restart the walk, little people are not very patient). Forgetting that, I was too optimistic. Any, I mean *any* mistake in exposure means I can throw that image away. The noise is considerable or actually way better than many dSLR etc but not to be discounted. I do not really mind noise as such in BW images but editing the file becomes a very restricted joyless process ;-) Especially when subject is already kind of boring :-P After using 8000 and 10000 ISO for a while and today finding this www.reddotforum.com/content/2015/06/bw-iso-showdown-leica... I do think I'll stick to the limit of not going past 6400. But, being me, I will for sure try 10000 in a well lit area, just to see how that goes :-D