ISO 3200 compact digital camera

[darxus]

Fujifilm FinePix F30 Zoom:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0602/06021403fujif30.asp

It's pretty rare for me to be able to say if I bought a camera now, it would not be a Canon.

Pretty much all the compacts I've seen max out at ISO 400 (higher number means better performance in low light, basically). And most of them won't pick ISO 400 in full auto mode, you have to force it.

The latest in Canon's line of smallest cameras, the SD600, will do ISO 800 now. I was afraid they'd stick at ISO 400 forever to try to make me buy a DSLR.

This is pretty exciting. I believe last I looked, ISO 3200 was the highest you could get out of a DSLR.

Yup, you still can't get better than ISO 3200 out of a Canon DSLR: D30, 5D, 1D Mark II N, 20Da, 1Ds Mark II....


Thanks to cyron_lj for the info. I should read http://www.dpreview.com/ more often.

Comments

[xuth.livejournal.com]

On my d30 I often did that. The d30 only went to ISO 1600 but I'd often dial in two stops underexposure. Focusing was virtually impossible but occasionally I'd get a really nice image. In the worst of worlds, I'd be shooting that way and still need half second exposures (at f/1.4). Ah, the joys of shooting in the dark.