Me wrote:
On 25/03/2012 8:01 p.m., Ray Fischer wrote:
wrote:
On 25/03/2012 4:36 p.m., Robert Coe wrote:

Then how does that square with your assertion (see above) that film does a
better job of rendering dark areas?

Why use a Canon DSLR in order to make a proclamation about shadow detail
recovery?
Canon's latest FF camera has two stops less dynamic range than the
competition at base ISO due to read noise from the sensor.

And where did you get the supposed information? Did you hack into
Canon's proprietary information? Did you disassemble a camera and
measure the read noise from the sensor?

http://home.comcast.net/~nikond70/Charts/PDR.htm

A chart of estimated values.

http://www.sensorgen.info/

A chart based upon images taken from the web.

I'm confident DXOMark will confirm the above in their own tests.

There is nothing to certify. There is guesswork.

Color me unimpressed.

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