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GX8 v G6 long exposures at night

Started Dec 9, 2015 | Photos thread
Jorginho Forum Pro • Posts: 15,370
Neither looks good.
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I understand you want to show us the differences and the differences are clear.

When I look specifically at the pics I would say it is overexposed. There is no need to see the beach and all other uninteresting things in the foreground. But with F1.8 and ISO2500 there was not much of a visible aurora to speak of clearly so we would probably see nothing if you exposed "right".

mFt sensors have not gained even 1 stop over the past 9 years when we look at noise. Not per DxO and not what we see here where G6 represents the typical mFT sensors 2008-2012. Of course this one was clearly better than the G1 but it was basically due to much better dynamic range.
The best mFT currently are almost identical to the Sony Nex3 from 2010 when it comes to noise. We have gotten us 1/2 a stop extra may be. For such photography that is simply not good enough, but in the end what hampered things the most in this case was the fact that it was merely a photographic aurora...

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