I enjoyed reading this - and I am very impressed at your fast raw reader (I program for my CCD & IR detector reading also). You've helped me cut through the advertising hype and see what is happening in reality, with brush strokes that are not so broad as to obscure the detail! I always felt queasy about upping the ISO on the dial - and the images at higher ISO - even starting at 2 stops above the lowest - started to look 'cheap'. I started to wish for on-chip binning (as I have commanded some of my ccd cameras to do - but they are monochrome, no colour micro-paterning, just big Johnson UVBVRZI (or ZJHK for infrared) filters in a wheel.
Clarity on my photography hobby, from a professional astronomer!
I enjoyed reading this - and I am very impressed at your fast raw reader (I program for my CCD & IR detector reading also). You've helped me cut through the advertising hype and see what is happening in reality, with brush strokes that are not so broad as to obscure the detail! I always felt queasy about upping the ISO on the dial - and the images at higher ISO - even starting at 2 stops above the lowest - started to look 'cheap'. I started to wish for on-chip binning (as I have commanded some of my ccd cameras to do - but they are monochrome, no colour micro-paterning, just big Johnson UVBVRZI (or ZJHK for infrared) filters in a wheel.
I'm your fan now!