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

[Sandy Harris]

On 5/24/07, Joseph Tainter <jtainter at mindspring.com> wrote:

http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/2007/05/major-low-light-digital-photography.html

> And regular exposures would be 1/4000 at F32 with a couple of ND filters
> in place?

2000 times faster than conventional sensors, they say. Wow! 11 stops.

I reckon most of us only need about four; that gives any of the dozens
of F4 or thereabouts lenses around -- nice ones like Pentax 21/3.2
Limited, Olympus 7-14 F4 zoom for 4/3, Canon 24-105 F4 on a 5D,
or cheap ones like almost any kit zoom -- the low-light capability of
an F1.0 Leica Noctilux.

But at what cost? What is the dynamic range? Colour rendition? Noise
performance? Are there manufacturing difficulties? Wiil the thing ever
make it out of the lab?

And are there tradeoffs? Instead of 11 stops faster, can we have, say,
5 stops faster  with 6 stops better dynamic range? Either would be
wonderful. Together, they'd be stunning.

-- 
Sandy Harris
Quanzhou, Fujian, China