Warning corrosive high ISO images
There is a lot of discussion around the light gathering ability of current digital SLR cameras at this time on the Internet. In case you are absorbing this post at some future date I am writing this in 2010 back when cameras could only capture images in murky darkness not inky blackness. Sorry about the fossil fuel thing, who new? Anyway back to the present, so there is all this discussion regarding which brand and which model of camera has the best signal to noise ratio and processing engine in order to make all images look the same no matter what circumstances you decide to take the picture in. Well before such a comparison is no longer possible do to the dwindling availability of a thing called film I though I should provide some perspective. I took some images with Kodak MAX 800 film and took similar pictures with my Pentax K-7 DSLR set at a comparable ISO 800. So when discussing ISO speeds of 12,800 and greater perhaps a small reminder of how much has changed in a few short years is warranted.
Pentax K-7 ISO 800
Kodak Max 800 taken with a Pentax ME Super.
Pentax K-7 ISO 800
Kodak Max 800 taken with a Pentax ME Super.
As an addendum I’m aware that this wasn’t the best possible film to use but it is what I had on hand and I also didn’t do any noise reduction on either the film or the digital files.
