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Archive 2014 · Leica M Monochrom…experiences out there?

  
 
Mitch Alland
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rscheffler wrote:
...Just a question to the MM shooters: has anyone used it as an ISO-less camera? Considering it's the same base sensor as in the M9, and that camera has been shown to provide little, if any image quality benefit when increasing the ISO over the base value vs pushing files in post, one would expect this would also work with the MM, especially seeing how pliable its files are. If you are setting ISO based on the scene, what do you feel is the benefit of this? I could image one is less time spent in post...


Ron, only saw this thread today.

The advantages and techniques of pushing with LR4/LR5 in post-processing are the same as with the M9, except that, rather than shooting at ISO 640 as on the M9, one shoots at ISO 1250 with the MM and then increase the "Exposure" in Lightroom. While, as others have indicated, the noise of the MM at ISO 5,000 and 10,000 can be similar to film grain, the dynamic range at these high ISOs can be very thin. Also, for night photography in very dark streets one often has very high contrast areas of light that require different exposure as one walks and finds different subjects — in such situations, my preference with the MM is to shoot at ISO 1250 and push in post. Anyone not familiar with this technique can read about it in this thread for the M9, in which the specific steps are listed in post #31 on page 2.

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