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native ISO sensitivity (which typically offers the highest image quality)

Started Mar 16, 2012 | Discussions thread
Lemming51
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Re: Image quality on landscape photos

criticalstories wrote:

They're not really groking what you're asking. "Native ISO" is the actual ISO that the sensor works at and also has the WIDEST dynamic range. It's really important to those of us shooting video. My guess is that it's 800 as it is on the full frame sensors, but I'm not sure about that.

There's so much more to picture quality than DR.  DR may be marginally greater at ISO ~800, but noise is also higher than at 100-400.

IMHO, YMMV

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