The Dark Bench



The Dark Bench, originally uploaded by jjvornov.

Another image from Amsterdam. Again with the D300 and 24mm f/2.8. As I expected, the combination was not really much heavier or bulkier than the Leica with the 35mm Summicron, providing the same field of view, but a stop slower. With ISO 800 on the D300 being cleaner than the ISO 400 (or ISO 320) film in the Leica, speed is no different between the two systems.

By continuing to convert to Black and White by policy for these travel images, I have greater control of rendering by converting to black and white in Photoshop. So the Leica has lost it’s prime role as a travel camera to the D300 on the basis of image quality.

Author: James Vornov

I'm an MD, PhD Neurologist who left a successful academic career on the Faculty of The Johns Hopkins Medical School to develop new treatments in Biotech and Pharma. I became fascinated with how people actually make decisions based on the science of decision theory and emerging understanding of how the brain works to make decisions. My passion now is this deep explanation of what has been the realm of philosophy, psychology and self help but is now understood as brain function. By understanding our brains, I believe we can become happier, more successful people.

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