Testing ISO1600 with R-D1

[Epimetheus]

This camera has surprised me positively in many ways but yesterday with high sensitivities. The stair case in the picture was very dimly lit and I had to use ISO 1600. There’s visible noise only in the shadow areas and even that looks like nice film grain. Of course all this is hardly visible on this small web size jpg.

 

[Gid]

Very, very nice shot. The RD1 is no slouch at high ISOs.

 

[nzeeman]

maybe you could make more shots on iso 1600 - it would be interesting to see.

 

[wintoid]

Never mind the technicalities, I really enjoyed your shot!

 

[Terao]

Excellent, what a wild staircase.

As far as high ISO's go I prefer Neopan1600 to what the R-D1 produces but I know at a push its there as a last resort, as I found at a wedding I did last year...

Of course, all the D3 wannabes will laugh at its performance whilst showing minute web jpgs of how wonderful their $6k camera is @ ISO25600 😉

 

[JT2007]

it would interesting to see some iso1600 shots in color, at nighttime with some light spots (i mean streets lamps etc).

 

[tomasis]

is it procesed with adobe raw? this does quite good work reducing noise of high iso files

 

[Tuolumne]

Looks like an Archimedes spiral. See here:
http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/ArchimedeanSpiral_dir/archimedeanSpiral.html

and here:
http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/Spiral_dir/spiral.html

Very beautiful shapes.

The staircase is wonderful and you have captured it marvelously. Can you tell us who the architect is and where it is to be found?

/T

 

[dcsang]

Great shot and impressive @ ISO1600 - now I must reconsider the R-D1 over the M8..

sheesh 🙂

Dave

 

[Tuolumne]

When all is said and done, I believe the R-D1 will be remebered as a classic and the M8 as just Leica's first step in digital bodies. Buy the R-D1!

/T

 

[Jim Watts]

Even after more than 2 years use my R-D1 still continues to impress me with its low light capabilities. The attached was shot last Thursday night in Brick Lane in London's East End lit mainly by the street lights with just the last vestiges of daylight. The colour original was at least 1 stop under exposed so its more like 3200 iso.

 

[Johnmcd]

Love the stairway, Epimetheus.Here's another at 1600 with 40mm Nokton. Just fooling around while watching the telly...

Cheers,

John

 

[Johnmcd]

Even after more than 2 years use my R-D1 still continues to impress me with its low light capabilities. The attached was shot last Thursday night in Brick Lane in London's East End lit mainly by the street lights with just the last vestiges of daylight. The colour original was at least 1 stop under exposed so its more like 3200 iso.

Beautiful! I love the many definable tones between black and white. And the detail in the shadow beneath his hat. Well done.

John

 

[SteveM(PA)]

Here's a color example and look my flash went off 🙂

 

[victoriapio]

ISO 1600 with 21mm biogon at a poorly lit symphony concert (at 1/7th of a sec)

And very early morning in Victoria, Texas at ISO 1600