Canon are winning the ISO race

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J-see

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It'll be great to use max ISO and end up with the DR of an Etch A Sketch.

I'm happy for them they can be number one in the category "nothing relevant".

I just checked how they try to do it: sensor pixels the size of a football field; 19µm. What they don't mention is that the sensor being a normal 35mm which will deliver what resolution?

2.4Mpix?
 
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mikew_RIP

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J-see said:
It'll be great to use max ISO and end up with the DR of an Etch A Sketch.

I'm happy for them they can be number one in the category "nothing relevant".

I just checked how they try to do it: sensor pixels the size of a football field; 19µm. What they don't mention is that the sensor being a normal 35mm which will deliver what resolution?

2.4Mpix?
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T-Man

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What is infinitely more important to me is "usable" ISO noise suppression. I don't care one whit about how high an ISO number you can select if it doesn't produce an acceptably low noise level. Right now, I can confidently deal with the noise present up to about ISO 3200, and sometimes even 6400, but usually anything over 3200 has way too much noise for my taste. Sensors capable of producing noise-free images at 6400+ is a much more impressive technical accomplishment to my way of thinking.
 
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J-see

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Increasing ISO on a cam is no accomplishment indeed. You just add some more multipliers to the amplifier. I can go to 50k ISO on cam and to 500 million in post. The shots will look like crap however.

Regardless how much ISO that button on the Canon displays, ISO does not add light and it still boils down to opening the lens and decreasing the shutter. Even with 4 million ISO, you can't take a shot at 1/1000s and hope it to be perfect. The light remains identical regardless what ISO used and thus the noise too.
 
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Scott Murray

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This will be more aimed to documentary makers and night time video, at a price of $30,000 I do not think many will be buying it.

The ME20F-SH is set to be available in December 2015 at a suggested retail price of $30,000.
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In the press release Canon particularly notes the specialized camera’s applications for nighttime surveillance, cinematic production, reality television and nature/wildlife documentaries, but its usefulness extends far beyond the examples Canon has given.
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Woodyg3

Woodyg3

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Nothing magic here. Bigger pixels collect more light. Trade off in lower resolution for higher ISO and less noise. These cameras might be pretty good for low light security or some kind of low light video. That's a lot of cash to spend on a specialty camera, though. It's a bragging rights winner for canon, I suppose. :)
 
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