The ability of modern cameras to take images in extremely low light is astonishing. In this view at Kentish Town station 700035, working the 17.28 Rainham to Luton service, is still arriving at some speed but the camera has managed to capture the scene relatively well with no blur and, with a little work from Photoshop's NeatImage add-on, there is very little digital noise. Back on a cold night in November 1979 when I took time exposures on the same station I required a sturdy tripod and an exposure of some twenty seconds to get a reasonable image on a Kodachrome 64 slide. However, there is something about the 'quality' of images taken using that fine film media that cannot be quite replicated on modern equipment but I am not absolutely sure what that elixir is?
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