Oddly enough, I somehow missed that message of yours, Miserere.
Rant over. And it wasn't directed at you, Boris. Sorry that
your
message was the one I replied to.
Cheers,
--M.
As to your rant. Very soon after starting reading you I realized it
wasn't specifically for me, so it's ok.
I hear you and agree with you to some extent. I will try to explain.
First and foremost the actual dynamic range of the sensor drops
significantly as ISO increases and especially so towards the highest ISO
values. I think that general/average/common-place/etc shooter does not
take that into account at shoot-time. Then, in post they will be forced
to play with the tones and inevitably rather immediately hit the limits
- posterization, bad noise, etc.
Second of all, you're absolutely right in a sense that if everyone would
take care to set ISO according to lighting conditions, it would be just
swell. But it does not happen.
So, "general opinion" is that in higher ISO values cameras "suck"...
I also shot at ISO 1600 with my K10D and *tried* ISO 6400 with my K-7.
In fact, event at f/1.2 or f/1.4 and at 1/60 sec it is pretty darn dark.
Much noise, etc. But then in cases where there were "enough" light, it
came out reasonable...
Likely the above will qualify me as "general/average/common-place/etc
shooter".
*grin*
Boris
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