Saturday, 14 October 2017

What are the applications for high ISO shooting?




EOS high-end cameras seem to have a very high ISO range. According to some charts, the prosumer 6D has 102400 ISO extrapolated and the 1Dx can go up to 400K ISO. These numbers seem insanely high to me.


In the film era, if you wanted to maximize picture quality, you tended to stay close to 100 ISO or below. From all I read, this is still the case and ISO 100 gives the best digital capture quality.


I understand that now you can take pictures in near darkness that couldn’t be obtained a decade ago.



What I read in Is high ISO useful for photography? seems to confirm that it is useful in some situations but that it is better to stick to the base ISO resolution.


For regular use, what are the applications for high ISO shooting?




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