(TOP) Major Low-light Digital Photography Breakthrough Inbound fromKorea

[John Francis]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:18:12PM -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote:
> http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/2007/05/major-low-light-digital-photography.html
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> Thibault Massart aka Thibouille
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> And regular exposures would be 1/4000 at F32 with a couple of ND filters 
> in place?
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> The sensor looks pretty small. Could it be scaled up to APS-C?
> 
> Joe

If you read some of the followup postings you'll find out that:

 1)  This isn't really new - in fact just about the same press
     release was discussed on dpreview back in 2005.

 2)  Sony already sell cameras with this level of sensitivity.

 3)  The resolution is quite low (VGA?), and the pesky laws of
     physics pretty much say you're going to be stuck at low
     resolutions to get even marginally acceptable signal-to-
     noise ratios.