"...less adept at higher ISO settings, with the ISO 800 and 1600 settings virtually useless due to noise"
What Point and Shoot compact handles anything close to ISO 800 without noise? Right. Any high ISO mode is more or less a gimmick on a P&S compact as the pixel density on the tiny sensors are so so high, noise is inevitable. Are the results really unusable though? I've seen "unusable" results as 100% blow ups. They look like crap on your monitor. Printed they look like super high ISO images which they're not i.e. 800 looks like 3200! Expecting low noise at high ISO with a pixel dense sensor on a compact camera is a bit unreasonable.
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theycallmetak @ Sep 14th 2007 6:21PM
"...less adept at higher ISO settings, with the ISO 800 and 1600 settings virtually useless due to noise"
What Point and Shoot compact handles anything close to ISO 800 without noise? Right. Any high ISO mode is more or less a gimmick on a P&S compact as the pixel density on the tiny sensors are so so high, noise is inevitable. Are the results really unusable though? I've seen "unusable" results as 100% blow ups. They look like crap on your monitor. Printed they look like super high ISO images which they're not i.e. 800 looks like 3200! Expecting low noise at high ISO with a pixel dense sensor on a compact camera is a bit unreasonable.