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Questions for 330 HS owners

Started Nov 22, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP toomanycanons Forum Pro • Posts: 14,167
Re: These are SOOC

damian5000 wrote:

1600 is not too bad, but this scene is fairly well lit. 6400 is understandably a mess. In low light it would be much worse. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but 1/2.3" sensors are not for mediocre or low light and several people on the forum portray them as such, which is sad, as often people are coming here for buying advice. The 1"-type is really the minimum required, unless shooting static scenes on a tripod.

I've shot a lot of DSLRs in that scene, looking at noise levels.  The criteria there is the lowest possible noise at an acceptably high enough shutter speed to shoot handheld, with post processing to clean up the noise with not much loss of detail.  I normally shoot at ISO 100 on a tripod.

Here, with the 330, the sole criteria was "will this little camera even shoot at higher ISOs" not how much noise it generated at any ISO.  There was a time, not that long ago, when sensors of this size wouldn't even shoot above ISO 1600.

I don't think anyone on this forum is delusional enough to think small sensor cameras (even the 1" sensors" are DSLR substitutes.  But at least now I know that if the only camera I have with me is the 330 (doubtful as I don't really stroll around taking snapshots) I know it can actually take a shot at 6400.

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