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SL long exposures ...... and OIS performance (unrelated)


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As I have had the cable release for some time I decided to have a play during the festive lull.....

 

.... and yes, you can take exposures of any length over the 60 second limit with the release locked.

 

I had the forlorn hope that the subsequent  NR exposure would max out at 60 seconds ..... but no, it keeps going, going, going to the bitter end ......

 

Somehow I can't see me taking long exposures and waiting the same period again for NR  :(

 

........ on a happier note......

 

Doing some tests on the OIS performance and rather gratified that I can handhold at 90mm down to 1/15 sec with no obvious detriment to the image quality ...... at 1/10th sec some slight blurring of edges at 100% creeps in. 

 

As image quality doesn't suffer much till 1600 and above that gives a fairly potent combination in terms of low light performance which way offsets the modest apertures of the 24-90..... I'm impressed  :)

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As I have had the cable release for some time I decided to have a play during the festive lull.....

 

.... and yes, you can take exposures of any length over the 60 second limit with the release locked.

 

I had the forlorn hope that the subsequent  NR exposure would max out at 60 seconds ..... but no, it keeps going, going, going to the bitter end ......

 

Somehow I can't see me taking long exposures and waiting the same period again for NR  :(

 

........ on a happier note......

 

Doing some tests on the OIS performance and rather gratified that I can handhold at 90mm down to 1/15 sec with no obvious detriment to the image quality ...... at 1/10th sec some slight blurring of edges at 100% creeps in. 

 

As image quality doesn't suffer much till 1600 and above that gives a fairly potent combination in terms of low light performance which way offsets the modest apertures of the 24-90..... I'm impressed  :)

 

Exposure length is limited to 30 minutes in Bulb mode. This will cover most everything except for star trails with a wide lens (1-2 hours is ideal for that application). Leica really needs to make the long exposure noise reduction a menu item and leave it up to the user. Lightroom catches the hot pixels and does a great job of fixing them. And of course, we can do dark frame subtraction manually, with one frame at the end of the shoot if desired.

 

Here is a shot with the 50 Lux ASPH at F4, 30 minutes, ISO 100

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