Yes, this looks noisy and grainy but for street life it works for me.
Found this today at Flickr. I must say it's *amazing* that such a tiny sensor is pulling this off. This is a real world high ISO shot. It's size reduced to 3 megapixels and it' still a JPEG, works for me with all the grain. This is the kind of stuff I was looking for to justify an LX5-> Q upgrade.
Small sample:
The 3 megapixel shot here:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6168/6134273094_41e0fb1262_o.jpg
Note the exif: F1.9 and 1/10th of a second at ISO 6400.
I realize usually bright areas in a scene in all sensors tend to look better but consider the kind of exposure this still is. Say F2.8 1/10th of a second at ISO 6400 would take care of any highlights here, not that I find any issues as is anyway. They don't look really burned to me per se.
- Ricardo
PS: The photographer is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pavel_urusov/
Found this today at Flickr. I must say it's *amazing* that such a tiny sensor is pulling this off. This is a real world high ISO shot. It's size reduced to 3 megapixels and it' still a JPEG, works for me with all the grain. This is the kind of stuff I was looking for to justify an LX5-> Q upgrade.
Small sample:
The 3 megapixel shot here:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6168/6134273094_41e0fb1262_o.jpg
Note the exif: F1.9 and 1/10th of a second at ISO 6400.
I realize usually bright areas in a scene in all sensors tend to look better but consider the kind of exposure this still is. Say F2.8 1/10th of a second at ISO 6400 would take care of any highlights here, not that I find any issues as is anyway. They don't look really burned to me per se.
- Ricardo
PS: The photographer is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pavel_urusov/