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Outstanding ISO 1600 pictures for a P & S. Thank you for posting these; you have helped solidify my decision to buy my first Sony camera.
 
I do say pretty impressive, if we keep in mind we're talking a P&S. These T100 ISO shots have me a little encouraged about the H9, which I am giving serious consideration too. I am suspecting that the BIONZ processor in both is a significant contributing factor to these results? What would your own experience suggest about what seem to be some imminently "useable" high ISO shots, at least for the P&S crowd?

Jerry
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Gerald L. Stevens
 
For a point and shoot, meaning small sensor small lens, the T100 is very impressive. In better light, the higher ISO shots will be more usable. In darker settings, like dimly lit clubs, you will see a lot more noise, especially in the shadows. That said, the T100 seems a huge improvement over previous T series cams and up there with the best now in this market.

The Fuji F30 and its ilk are probably still the leaders in the dimly lit/higher ISO compact market, but that camera in addition to being bulkier, blows highlights in good light and the exposure in general in normal outdoor settings is all over the map. Bye bye point and shoot convenience as you will need to compensate exposure frequently and check the histogram after shooting a lot. Now I do this on my dSLR all the time, but I don't want to have to deal with that in my pont and shoot for the most part. In addition, the Sony T100 does a better job of preserving highlights in scenes like the outdoor snow shots I posted than my former T series cameras. The F30 that I tried briefly takes a winter landscape and nukes the snow white scenery to the point of blindness. But if you need/want a compact that does indoor available light very well, and just about only that, then the fugly Fuji may be the way to go. Sony and others are catching up though and cameras like the T100 offer a nice balance of features and consistent exposure to boot.

Overall, the T100 seems to be a fine camera that does what it is designed to do very well.
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Shots posted:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightroad_ax/
 
Agreed the T100 seems a significant step forward for Sony over previous T models. I really kind of think its the Bionz processor.

As you continue shooting, when convenient and you think about it, hit a couple of frames that will intentionally stress out the system on noise--low light, shadow details. A hi-res then would give actual impressions of useability from printed output in various sizes. I suspect the printed results may prove surprisingly good, that is, compared to earlier iterations of the T series.

Jerry
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Gerald L. Stevens
 
abelnightroad said:
For a point and shoot, meaning small sensor small lens, the T100 is
very impressive. In better light, the higher ISO shots will be more
usable. In darker settings, like dimly lit clubs, you will see a
lot more noise, especially in the shadows. That said, the T100
seems a huge improvement over previous T series cams and up there
with the best now in this market.
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I am impressed with these results at EV8. I'd really like to see what it does at lower light levels like EV4 where you really need the high ISOs, settings like ISO 3200, f/5.6 at 1/20 sec. Please, if you will?

--mamallama
 
I mean if you have good light where you can use a lower ISO along with speed, why would you use ISO 1600+?
Surely only a dim light shot means anything?

I guess considering that daylight ISO 800 examples in previous cameras were looking iffy then if you extrapolate these 1600/3200 iso shots I guess it could indeed mean a significant improvement, but I sure would like to see dim light shots!! Rant over
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'Believing something doesn't make it so'
 
We can see the noise increase moving from the well lit area into the shadows. 1600 might be good for a photo without deep shadows but I find the noise and color shift on the right disturbing.

On the other hand at 1600 you will capture a memory and to heck with the noise.

At 3200 I would find it rough to disregard the noise. Still it's better than ASA 400 Tri-X pushed two or three stops. Historical note: before digital cameras people used something called film in their cameras.
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bottom=bottomdollar
 
That did make me lol though. Only natural light coming through the window. Not sunlight either. Cloudy and snowy today. I'll post two shots of the same subject now that it is dark out with the room lit by only the one 75-watt overhead ceiling lamp (muted light) I have in my study. I'll post the full size images to my smugmug site. One thing I notice is how much better the higher ISO shots retain their color saturation over recent Sony compacts.

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3200



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Shots posted:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightroad_ax/
 
Look for what they are there good, iam not here to bash you but either table lamp or what looks like "direct sunlight" then its an unfair High ISO shot.Also saving as BMP with the exif info destroyed dont help.

Ie , exposure time.
 
1600 useable, I think. I played with the image some, which I think prints 4x6 decently enough. Better to have this shot than not get one at all:



Jerry
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Gerald L. Stevens
 
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