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Tiny 1-inch Sensor in Low Light

Started Jan 3, 2019 | Photos thread
John Sheehy Forum Pro • Posts: 26,688
Re: Tiny 1-inch Sensor in Low Light

misterodd wrote:

Thank you! This is generous and sound advice that you have offered me. Eventually, I will get myself a camera that produces decent images in low light and learn the basics of post-processing.

Unless you're on a tripod with a stable subject at base ISO, or hand-holding in Av mode at base ISO in good light, it is really the lens that captures light, and the sensor is just a screen to capture it. The sensor and lens are a team.

You shot at f/4.5. If you had an f/1.4 lens of the same focal length, and the shallower DOF was welcome or acceptable, then you could have taken that same shot with 1/100s, or at ISO 320, with the extra light, or compromised somewhere in-between.

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