On 2011-09-13 01:21 , Dario Bonazza wrote:
To me, high-ISO performance and dynamic range are paramount and are the single most important feature in choosing a SLR these days. Here are some typical pictures I had to take two days ago:
cool examples; i am still in the old world equipment-wise, but it's very clear to me that what ISO & dynamic range improvements do is open up a new kind of shooting
in addition to your examples i would think the many people doing field macro shots would relish the possibilities (or hate the idea that others would now be able to make shots that in the past were technically much more difficult); i have spent hours stalking seemingly-caffienated insects and waiting for breezes swaying plants to quiet; i open my aperture to get a barely-quick-enough exposure only to find the tiny flower of a grass moving in and out of focus, and not enough of the flower in focus at any one time anyway
i don't think i'd need ISO 100,000 to get the image i visualize in these scenes, but the new cameras can clearly achieve both a much smaller aperture and a much shorter exposure in the conditions i often face
while i look forward to using such a tool, i don't fail to recognize that the job at hand is what's important, and the tool is just a tool, an object with which one develops technique
as an example of this going the other way i note your later message that focus is your next most important factor after ISO/d-range, but you don't elaborate ... in my case i have almost abandoned autofocus -- not just macro work but most of my shooting now relies on manual focus, and on improving my manual focus technique; so i would agree that focus is very important to me, but i think EVF aids that work well with manual focus are probably the focus-related improvement i would most relish
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