[LRflex] DMR Noise Quandary

Hi-

I've been following the DMR posts closely because I bought one a month ago
and am learning to use it. My experience with ISO 1600 is different from
that shown in David Young's portrait, not better, just different.

Here is an early effort with the DMR shot out my kitchen window (wildlife is
where you find it) made with an R9, DMR, Vario-Elmar 80-200 f/4, hand held,
1/90 sec at f4, WB Cloudy, aperture priority mode.

It is an 8X10 Photoshop jpeg crop of the DNG pix, otherwise un-edited. It is
not one of the best frames I've ever made and I don't show it to you for any
purpose other than to demonstrate my experience at ISO 1600; I know it is
not particularly well focused and the colors seem way "off" to me, but the
reason I show it is that I don't see the "noise" effect.  See it at:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/L1030158_orig_crppd

I am curious about the difference and why it may be different from David's
experience.

BTW, I am a 75 year old retired naval person. I began photography as a hobby
by helping my dad, who was a newspaper reporter and photographer, with his
Speed Graphic and a Graphlex wooden tripod, which I still use, in the 1930s.
I graduated to my own Kodak Vigilant and home darkroom about 1945, bought a
Rollei TLR in 1953, inherited two M4s in 1973, changed to an R4 in 1986, an
R7 in 1991, an R9 last year, and added a DMR in January. I have way, way too
many negatives, slides, and prints, which I am trying to sort and ID while I
still can do so. Next week I take the DMR to London for a week; wish me
luck.

Cheers,

Bill Abbott


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