Monochrome Night Photos from Downtown Vancouver

As per yesterday’s post, where I talked about trying to test the high ISO performance, I wandered about downtown Vancouver at night, taking photos at night to really try and dig into the performance of higher ISOs, but I inadvertently found all the brightest-lit things ever. Here are some more photos from that walk. Again, I failed to really push the limits of ISO performance, and I managed to only get up to ISO 1250, which is nothing, really.

Curved architectural detail with vertical concrete columns lit at night — Curved architectural detail with vertical columns at the art gallery in downtown Vancouver at night
**Camera**: Leica M (typ 246) Monochrom
**Lens**: Light Lens Lab 50mm f/1.2 ASPH “1966”
**ISO**: 1000 **Aperture**: f/2.0 **Shutter**: 1/60 sec

I might show my age here, but I still somehow feel a little odd saying statements like ISO 1250 as being a “low ISO.” I cut my photographic teeth first on film cameras where films like Fuji Superia 1600 was a ridiculously grainy film, followed by my first digital cameras where ISO 3200 was the highest they would actually go, but realistically, they stopped being useable past ISO 800 (which was the same as shooting film at the time)

Granville Street with neon lights and signs for the Orpheum and Vogue theatres — Granville Street with neon signs for the Orpheum and Vogue theatres at night
**Camera**: Leica M (typ 246) Monochrom
**Lens**: Light Lens Lab 50mm f/1.2 ASPH “1966”
**ISO**: 640 **Aperture**: f/2.0 **Shutter**: 1/60 sec

Get ready for my ‘Old Man Yells At Cloud” Moment :)

Kids these days don’t know the hardships that we had to go through with such inferior gear :) Nowadays, I actually don’t even pay attention to ISO and legit just set it on auto, knowing that they are all good :)

Hotel Belmont sign lit up at night on a quiet downtown sidewalk — Hotel Belmont sign lit on a downtown sidewalk at night
**Camera**: Leica M (typ 246) Monochrom
**Lens**: Light Lens Lab 50mm f/1.2 ASPH “1966”
**ISO**: 1250 **Aperture**: f/2.0 **Shutter**: 1/60 sec

Silhouetted tree branches in front of a modern lit building at night — Tree branches silhouetted against the lit exterior of an art installation at the art gallery in downtown Vancouver at night
**Camera**: Leica M (typ 246) Monochrom
**Lens**: Light Lens Lab 50mm f/1.2 ASPH “1966”
**ISO**: 640 **Aperture**: f/2.0 **Shutter**: 1/90 sec

All this is to say that more research on the Leica M Monochrom is still very much required!

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