Thread: Leica M9P Maiden Voyage

can we have an image of the camera please?

Originally Posted by Ray

James, I've never thought that Leica's had any sort of reputation for low light work - I would't expect them to excel for that type of shooting...

Ray, I'm trying my best not to buy the 5D MkIII .. trying reeeeeal hard....

Originally Posted by TraamisVOS

Antonio, have you had a chance to take some low light photos with the M9? I tried to take some photos at a darkly lit bar on Friday with my M8 but there was quite a lot of noise. I'm thinking of getting an M9 but am afraid ISO performance is only marginally better.

No, I have not yet. The highest ISO I have tried is 640 which I found to be very clean. I hope to try high ISOs soon and will let you know.

Cheers,

Antonio

James, I don't hesitate going to 1600 on my M9. It starts to get noisy, but it still has lots of detail so that the application of some noise reduction in Lightroom doesn't hurt the image quality significantly.

If you like black and white, then 2500 works just fine. The noise becomes more or less the pseudo film-grain.

Leica M9, ISO 2500, Nokton 50/1.1 wide-open.





Lightroom 3 processing.

Originally Posted by BillN

can we have an image of the camera please?

Here you go...


2012 Leica M9P by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Cheers,

Antonio

Beauty!!!

very cool but the glistening may have more to do with PR humidity than German design