Leica M9 @ Night

Last Tuesday was initially the first time I took my M9 out at night. I've no idea why this didn't happen any sooner..... As you all know, the M9 isn't famous for its high-ISO performance. Basically anything over ISO 800 is really grainy (I prefer the term grainy over noise, since I convert most of my photos into black and white).

I went out with the M9, the 50mm Summilux, Carl Zeiss 28mm f/2.8, and my tripod and below are some of the results.

The first photo was shot a 16 second exposure @ f/4 (ISO 160). I didn't want the whole scene in focus, hence the relatively large aperture.

The second photo is shot with the Leica Summilux 50mm handheld @ 1/15s f/1.4 (ISO2500). Looks I'm able to hold the M9 pretty steady.

And another photo taken with a tripod, with a relatively long exposure (@50mm, f/4, 2s, and ISO160)

The last photo (of some dog crap) is was taken with the Summilux 50mm @ 1/60s, f/1.4 and ISO640.