I'm unsure who this 'you' in your message is. Perhaps everybody commenting
on your posts? However, I'm going to post my opinion on this topic, since I
didn't that before. As I wrote before, I consider the high-ISO performance
the single most important factor/field of improvements for my photography.
The second most important factor (almost as important as the previous one)
is focusing capabilities. I understand this is just me. In fact, when you
reported you bought the E-5 (probably the less interesting current DLSR to
me) I wasn't scandalized at all. That's because I understood you were hooked
by the way it works and how it blends with your hands and your style of
shooting. That's another very important feature for a camera.
I know a lot of people with photographic obsessions, meaning quite obsessed
by performance they don't truly need. I'm just setting up a lecture for a
local camera club, including this topic. The most common one is sharpness
and pixel peeping at ridiculously high magnifications they'll never use in
their life. Another common obsession is high ISO. However, the fact that
some can be obsessd by performance they don't need don't negate that others
can badly need those performance.
Despite shooting at such low light levels, you should remember that I bought
the Panasonic GF-1, well aware of its limitations in this area. And well
aware of its other pluses, of course!
As you put your words it in this message, I can quite agree with everything,
especially the last sentence ;-)
Dario
----- Original Message -----
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: When high ISO performance matters (was: Pentax K-Q adapter
andsuch)
The fact that some people desperately need/want higher sensitivity
cameras to achieve the photographs they want to make is not in
question.
The statement I made is that "the *obsession* with ultra-high
sensitivity as single point of focus for whether a camera is good or
bad is ridiculous". I stand by that opinion, and have yet to see a
convincing fact or counter opinion to indicate that it is in error. It
is an obsession just like the obsessions with stratospheric pixel
resolution, fueled by stupid marketing in the "bigger is always
better" idiom also used to sell cars, motorcycles, and other consumer
goods by marketeers.
If you do not understand such a simple opinion, you don't know how to
read simple English. The word *obsession* is the subject of the
sentence, not the expression "ultra high sensitivity". Yes, my opinion
is dismissive of further discussion in the context of obsession ...
that was intentional.
If you want to make my opinion the topic of discussion, fine, that was
not my intent but also remember that my opinion is simply my opinion
.... If you disagree with my opinion on this topic I really don't care.
It isn't all that important to me whether you agree or not, it just
means to me that you accept obsession with a single point of focus as
your personal criteria for good or bad. Go for it, and good luck.
For the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with ultra-high
sensitivity, in fact I'm pleased to obtain it when it is available in
a camera that also meets my desires and needs in other dimensions (and
already have, as I consider "high" sensitivity to be ISO 400, and all
of my current cameras can easily go to two to three stops more
sensitivity than that with excellent results). Cameras are much more
complex devices to evaluate for use than just the consideration of how
many megapixels or how much sensitivity they offer implies ... being
obsessed with any one-dimensional aspect of their performance implies
a certain amount of blindness to all of the other factors that make a
camera more or less desirable for a given set of tasks.
To Dario: I agree with Fernando, I like your photos very much. :-)
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Godfrey
godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com
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