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I was doing a model shoot today in very difficult low light (an image to be used for a theatre poster). The only lighting was provided by the theatre and it required me to shoot at ISO 1600 to get anything useful.

 

The experience has been good in two ways.

 

1. Metering the M in Classic / Manual can be a challenge in low light as I'm finding that the "Out of range" signal (flashing left triangle) is a bit pessimistic - so that it even cuts in when shooting fully open at speeds of 1/45 @ f1.4. The solution is to turn on live view for a moment, hold the camera closer to a strongly illuminated part of the subject, press info and adjust exposure. You can then turn off LV and work with that setting all the time that the lighting remains unchanged. REALLY useful.

 

2. 2000 is absolutely fine for large poster reproduction. Even without Luminance NR, it's good.

 

3. Focusing is simply BETTER with the M-240. I had heard that they'd done work on the RF mechanism, and I think this must be true. I'm getting sharper images with RF focus on 50 lux and 90 apo-cron than I have ever done before. PLEASE don't pick on the fact that this is not perfect focus - it was a very quick job, and for the purpose, it's exactly what the client needs and will print fine for their use.

 

4. I still don't like skin tones with the LR 4.4 profile. More work is needed.

 

Evidence below.

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Chris-Did you have the chance to use a tripod? Also did you try to use the spot meter in advanced meter mode?

 

Chris,

i see what you mean about the skin tones......

 

In this context tripod was Impossible. Also, spot would have worked, but I'm still not confident working with the slight shutter lag. Still things to learn and a lot of practice needed.

Hoping there will be a better Lr profile soon.

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