Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoth the Sonny Carter :
> I'm trying to understand the value of a camera that can show
> something that
> I cannot see. I might as well start out with an x-ray camera as a
> 100000
> iso camera. Same with Infra red, and black and white.
>
> Don't get it. Never will.
It's not the top end that matters.... it's the effects lower down. I
have a 1DIIn that shoots 8.5 frames a second.... about which factoid
I couldn't possibly care less. It's fun to amuse first-graders and
non-techie adults, and if I did high-speed sports I could possible
see some useful applications, but otherwise, me no importa.
What I DO care about is that it means that the camera cycles quickly
enough that when I need to I can get off two or three shots so close
together that it only makes one noise and I can't tell the difference
between the frames at less than 100%.
Likewise, the fact that the new camera can produce an only moderately
crappy ISO 100000 image means jack, except that that camera can
probably produce a very-much-usable (or croppable) image at ISO
12,800... which WOULD be quite useful. If I'd been able to shoot the
badly-lit high school auditorium full of political candidates which
claimed my yesterday evening at 160/f8 instead of 80/f3.2, my editing
chores this morning would have been much less painful.
100,000 is marketing gee-whiz. 12,800, that's a good number.
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