It means you manually have to unlock higher than 6400iso. 2011/3/16 Tim Bray <[email protected]>: > What does "expanded ISO" mean in this context; is it Nikonese? -T > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tonight a friend and I did a quick, very informal, comparison of D700 vs K-5 >> high ISO. >> >> My first surprise was the the D700 only goes up to 6400 without going to >> expanded ISO. >> >> He had a f/2.8 lens of about the same FoV range as the 16-50 on the K-5, so >> we used those lenses, at approximately the same Field of View, at the same >> f/stop, and the same shutter speed. Photographing a pair of sandals in the >> shoe rack, indoors, the D700, at full crop, ISO 6400, f/2.8, 1/80 had >> better performance than the K-5. But not as much better as one might expect. >> >> We then shot a fence and building across the parking lot, ISO 6400, f/2.8, >> 1/15, and the gap narrowed considerably, and in color noise, the K-5 may >> have just slightly edged ahead of the D700. >> >> As anyone who has ever been near a D700 used to take a picture would expect, >> the K-5 was much quieter, maybe 1/4 as loud. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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