On 11 September 2011 18:31, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Godfrey DiGiorgi > [...] >> Overall, though, this obsession with ultra high ISO settings and the >> desire for noiseless results is, to me, utter and complete nonsense. >> > > Mark! > > And I kind of agree with you. It's always seemed to me to be a demand stoked > up by the manufacturers rather than one that comes naturally to many > photographer. I admit that some photographers might 'need' it, but really > very, very few. But men like big numbers, even when they're meaningless > ("these go to 11"), so the marketers pander to it. > > B >
One of my photography lecturers said as much in the 1970s, referring to silly students wanting faster film speeds, equating faster with better. "HP4 must be better than FP4, it has 275 more ASAs." But I don't see that it's about obsession with speed, it's about defining a camera's limits of performance. It's not like the "good ole days" when we could throw a faster film into a camera on spec, if a digital camera doesn't have good high sensitivity performance out of the box it never will have. regards, Anthony "Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight" (Anon) -- 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.
