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SubjectRe: ISO value names are becoming ridiculous
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Date01/07/2016 06:05 (01/07/2016 00:05)
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In article <s4kr8bp4c8gbso3f3utvim5u3db04n7dbd@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

Sandman
So with the D5, it can boost its ISO to ISO 3,280,000, and suddenly how ISO is named is becoming just stupid. We should use EV steps instead:

Whisky-dave
SO why start at -1 ?

Sandman
The base would be what is today called ISO 100, which corresponds to an expected brightness level of the resulting bitmap image.

Whisky-dave
Why limit it to bitmaps?

Sandman
Because ISO is film sensitivity and sensor amplification, ...

Eric Stevens
No it's not.

here we go again.

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