If you are gonna bring a D3, bring a tripod too and blow the iPhone out of the
water!
With a long enough exposure, you can even make the people disappear.
Peace, tOM Trottier
2014 Jan 08 - Wed at 7:48 re:Re: [OM] New Yorker article--Goodbye,
Cameras …
Chuck Norcutt <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote …
>The test shot is done of a dinosaur skeleton "in the dim EV4 light of
>the Queensland Museum in Brisbane." The requirements imposed on the
>image are great depth of field (to encompass the entire length of a
>brontosaurus-like animal and camera to be handheld. In this specialized
>case the iPhone5 camera totally blows away the Nikon D3 with 17-35/2.8
>lens. The iPhone is able to shoot at 1/15 second at f/2.4 (its only
>aperture) at ISO 640. The Nikon had to be rested on a surface to get a
>reasonably sharp shot at 1/15 second and needed f/16 and ISO 25,600 to
>match the depth of field. Actually, it needed f/19 for a true DOF and
>exposure match but couldn't get there at 1/15 second. At ISO 25,600 the
>D3 produces a truly soft and noisy and a bit underexposed JPEG that
>suffers in comparison with the iPhone image. Give the D3 a tripod, low
>ISO, f/19 and a slow shutter speed and the equation changes
>dramatically. The lesson is take the right tool for the job and the
>limitations imposed by the environment.
>
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