Randall Ainsworth wrote:
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, werdan
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In film days, losing a stop meant shooting 200 instead of 100 ISO film or
400 instead of 200. The noticable grain jumped up significantly each
increase and different films also rendered colours slightly differently.
Bbeing low noise and low vibration meant the RT was perfect for indoor
concerts/recitals etc. where you are not trying to be obtrusive. The 'no
blackout' meant it was good for following action in sport. Except these
situations also require you to get the most out of your film sensitivity and
1 stop was critical. The fact that there is little discernible difference
between ISO100,200 and even 400 on the latest Canon sensors shows that this
isn't really a limitation anymore. Granted it would be a backwards step in
sensor sensitivity but they way sensor development has been going, it would
only be temporary one.


So what's to stop retards from leaving the things lens-up on a picnic
table and burning a hole in the sensor? (They did it with the Pellix.)

You mean that some twits managed to burn a hole through the metal
shutter in the EOS RT or EOS-1n RS, or just the cloth shutter curtain on
an older FD mount slr (this is also a problem with cloth FP shutter RF
cameras: Leica, Canon, Zorki, Fed, etc)?
The same damage sould be happening to almost all P&S digicams today
(instead it would be the sensor getting burned), as the sensor is always
exposed to allow live-view on the LCD and/or EVF.