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Exactly. If it doesn't find the photosensitive part of the chip, all it does is make the silicon hotter.

Yes, it means exactly that. Then original work that revealed this was done by dxOmark, no longer live, but the results repeated here: https://luminous-landscape.com/an-open-letter-to-the-major-came ...

Well, apart from the fact that you're setting Albert's bar very low indeed, I'd support that approach. That's not where the problem starts, the problem starts when someone comes in to dispute the ...

It has all the hallmarks of wording decided by a committee to satisfy competing views.

I think Iliah's 'ROTFLMAO' was quite sufficient. However, should perchance anyone else be tempted to believe your hubristically projected faux knowledge, I'll explain why you're completely wrong. D ...

The whole exposure triangle was already in bits. You wouldn't notice if it fell apart any more. Indeed, but you don't need etendue to explain it (though I did use it in my reply to kiwi). All you ...

Well, yes, the dependence between AOV, FL sand image diagonal is well understood by pretty much everyone here The fact that you didn't directly refer to this and instead talk abstractly about ...

What does a raw value of 118 mean?

Why do you do it, then?

Well, ISO certainly is part of the 'exposure triangle'. No-one has denied it.  It isn't part of 'exposure' and the 'exposure triangle' is an unhelpful load of nonsense which has misinformed and ...

It can all be put right by a little https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Please do expand on how this dictation happens and which properties of the lens it affects, apart from the focal length and aperture. Is what you're saying that making the lens smaller compensates ...

Totally your own choice on who you take advice from, but basing it on the state of their galleries on a gear oriented website doesn't seem to be a very sound method to me. What's Jason Lanier's DPR ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_128

...but you can't explain why it's rubbish.

They are all quotation marks. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks_in_English An apostrophe is something different. They don't come in pairs and they represent abbreviation (and, ...

Excellent. The phlogiston triangle.

Whether or not it's a 'desperate measure' depends on what you're trying to achieve. All you're really doing choosing an ISO is pre-selecting the exposure that you're going to use, then the ...

The F mount in its latest form will, just, do an f/1.0 lens. The thing that was stopping it, was the mechanical stop down lever, but now with the E lenses, that has gone. The absurd design of ...

The good old Contax AX. You ever seen one in the flesh? They made a D5 look small. The AF also wasn't very effective. Clever engineering, though. As a way to instantly remove any advantages of a ...