now: Stealth M8 mode (Re: [Leica] three days with M8)

[ericm at pobox.com (Eric)]

Henning:

>I haven't done the full suite of tests myself either, but I've seen 
>the tests that other people have done, and some have done a very 
>thorough job, including graphing the resulting noise profiles. It 
>seems fairly conclusive. Thereafter I did a quick test, and sure 
>enough, the noise went up from 800 to 1000, but thereafter seemed to 
>stay the same at 1250 and 1600. Since then I haven't used 
>intermediates much.

I've seen such a graph.  I did tests for myself, and I noticed progressively
more noise as the ISO increased.  I didn't see any "sweet spots" at 100,
200, 400, etc.



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Eric
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