Leica M9, High ISO 2500 and 1250

[Sonnar Brian]

I had the M9 out to the Marine Museum today with the Nokton pair today. A number of the displays depict nightime, and have subdued lighting.

All shots are auto-white balance, 16-bit DNG, imported into LR 3.3 and exported directly to JPEG. Photoshop 7.0 used to resize the images to 1024pixels longest side.

Nokton 50/1.1, Wide-Open, ISO 2500.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Another wide-open at ISO 2500.



I set the camera down to ISO 1250 for a comparison, also at F1.1.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

ISO 2500, wide-open at f1.1 again.



and at ISO 1250 for a comparison.

 

[Damaso]

Wow that is almost enough to make me want to drop seven grand on a M9. Nice shots by the way. It certainly seems like the M9 hold up well at those isos.

 

[Keith]

I'd quite like to see a 100% crop of the shadow area in one of those first examples Brian if possible.

These look very good!

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Thankyou- the mannequins at the museum are the most lifelike of any I've seen. They are based on some of the museum volunteers, depicting them in their youth. Today, a veteran of Iwo Jima was giving the tour and posed for a portrait in front of a life-size blow-up of his platoon in action. He was the only survivor of 36 men after the battle.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Keith- I'll put together something for the "Mad Scientist" forum. At 100% crop, i can see some differences between ISO 1250 and 2500. But not much!

 

[helen.HH]

Wild !!!!
that M9 sings with mannequins & difficult Lighting

 

[robklurfield]

M8, 28 Elmarit asp (current)

 

[tic]

A question, how do these (excellent!) pics processed in lightroom compare to camera generated jpegs when it comes to noise?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I will do another set with the both DNG and in-camera JPEG.

I have been shooting DNG exclusively after getting Lightroom set up on my computer. It is very easy to batch export JPEG's.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

From yesterday, M9 at ISO 2500, Nokton 50/1.1 wide-open, shutter speed 1/60th. I use a Leica 1.25x magnifier.



It was really dark, mostly disco lights with the main lights turned off.

"Subject moved during exposure", panned camera with subject.

 

[hxpham]

I'm still waiting for someone to say that the images look plasticky, almost waxy hahaha 😉 😛

 

[Nikon Bob]

Interesting, I don't see any of Brian's photos but I do Rob's.

Bob

 

[spikey]

Interesting, I don't see any of Brian's photos but I do Rob's.

Same here ...
and pity, no exif info on Rob's ????

 

[tjh]

I had the M9 out to the Marine Museum today with the Nokton pair today. A number of the displays depict nightime, and have subdued lighting.

All shots are auto-white balance, 16-bit DNG, imported into LR 3.3 and exported directly to JPEG. Photoshop 7.0 used to resize the images to 1024pixels longest side.

Nokton 50/1.1, Wide-Open, ISO 2500.

These pics aren't visible to my Safari browser... never seen a problem before.

 

[tjh]

Now they became visible .. strange. I think there just was a long (!!!!!!!) delay.

 

[sepiareverb]

Boy these would have been really great with a Canon eh? 😉

This has been my experience as well shooting at higher ISO with the M9- tho I've not needed to go quite this high. Lightroom does seem to process the higher ISO DNG files much better than PS does alone.