Hi all, just like to ask around before i commit on the D3s. Is high ISO really that useful? Or it is just a gimmick?
Hi all, just like to ask around before i commit on the D3s. Is high ISO really that useful? Or it is just a gimmick?
Hi all, just like to ask around before i commit on the D3s. Is high ISO really that useful? Or it is just a gimmick?
Hi all, just like to ask around before i commit on the D3s. Is high ISO really that useful? Or it is just a gimmick?
if you purely shoot in the studio and landscape images, high ISO is useless to you.
if you shoot alot in low light situation where you can't use a flash, high ISO is very important to you.
like what the others had mentioned, it depends on what you shoot, and your needs.
TS only mentioned that he was keen on D3s... how did D3100, D700 and D7000 come into the picture?I am proposing to you that you might want to change your question to... how high is an ISO performance that is going to be useful to yourself.
High ISO gives you a range of shooting options to cover more shooting opportunities. So that's a given that high ISO is important. But even more important is high ISO performance and not just high ISO capability. Think D3100 is go high ISO but the high ISO performance is nothing compared to D700 or D3 or D3s.
Now how high an ISO performance do you need? Then it will determine between a D700 and D3s. I am assuming you are only aiming at FX so will give DX D7000 a miss.
Hi all, just like to ask around before i commit on the D3s. Is high ISO really that useful? Or it is just a gimmick?
Hi all, just like to ask around before i commit on the D3s. Is high ISO really that useful? Or it is just a gimmick?
Especially for photojournalism and outdoor wildlife photography, shooting opportunities come in split seconds and under various challenging lighting scenarios, and there's absolutely no way to repeat those moments. Equipped with D3s type high ISO performance could mean getting clear / low noise winning images, versus getting unusable blurry / noisy images.
So I'd say for PJ and WL photography, should go for the top high ISO performance body like D3s.
good iso performance is valuable esp in performance/sports aspect etc...but if you should landscape mostly, then it shd be much relevant...
anyway, I think you didn't wana buy a D3S just because of the iso right? it shd be more to it...
While the argument is to buy a DSLR with good high ISO performance. However when your usuage pattern seldom go beyong ISO 800, then it would be a waste of money to buy performance you don't need other than bragging rights.
E.g. I got a EVO X and I know how fast it can go but I hardly go beyond 70kph. You only get to show off but harly use the car. So it's the same with cameras.
You know, if you have to ask........
..... You probably don't need a D3S...
TS never said he needed a D3s. All he said was going to buy one. I buy a lot of things I don't need too.