Olympus FE-250 - boasts ISO 10,000

[DaddyB]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0701/07012504olympusfe250.asp

dpreview.com is understandably a little skeptical, but this SUB $300 is supposed to have, not 1600ISO, not 3200ISO, but an astounding 10,000ISO rating.

I can't wait until they get their hands on it!

I mean, I really like Olympus, and they have really great engineers who can squeeze the dickens out of the lens and ccd, but 10,000ISO???

"This I gotta see".

DOES ANYONE EVEN READ THIS SECTION OF VF ANYMORE???

[GreenLantern13]

What ISO do our eyes get anyways? heh.

Finally found an article. Says an eye is roughly the equivalent of 800 ISO at night and 1 ISO during the day. Nice :P

And it sees in over 576 megapixels resolution(given a 120 degree field of view.. the eyes really get around 180 degrees but we're not staring at the detail of all 180 degrees at once etc)

[uscfan7690]

10,000 ISO? That's nothing short of amazing, really. It really makes you wonder, with its sub-$300 price, how low prices on cameras will drop in coming years. I hope that film doesn't die out completely as digital takes over the market, though :icon_conf (with raising standards and lowering prices, though, that seems to be the latest trend)

[xfkirsten]

...what's the grain on that one going to be like?!

[DaddyB]

I would hope that it would be at least somewhat usable at 7000 ;)



5000?

[RU42]

The 10,000 sounds incredible but as Kirsten pointed out, the grain - wow. To get that you have to drop from 8MP to 3 MP so you have lower pixels to help clean up the picture in Photoshop.

It's widest f stop is 2.8 so you lose there some.

Sounds interesting and I can wait to see it function, but as the review pointed out, unless they rewrote the laws of physics, there will be some serious picture quality reduction.

RU