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SubjectRe: ISO value names are becoming ridiculous
FromEric Stevens
Date01/08/2016 01:33 (01/08/2016 13:33)
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On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:05:09 -0500, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

nospam
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.

nospam
here we go again.

Are you hurt that none of it's your doing? :-) --

Regards,

Eric Stevens