horshack, lovely images. Great you can handhold at 15 sec!!
My point was that, at least for me, I shoot mostly handheld. And that in practice, I have found, that I do need excessive iso going to 128k and above.
I went out as mentioned and shot across my balcony. All auto, jpg. Let my Df choose what it wanted. It chose iso 1800. Good enough for me. And it had plenty in reserve and raw, if needed.
Maybe the Sony could do better..with comments from experienced forum members, I am sure it could.
But the Df can do just about what I want handheld in pretty miserable light.
Just wanted to make the point that having a high iso is excellent. But I do not go out and shoot over 3200... very rarely..maybe 6400 at times. And pixel peeping into dark corners at 100% is not really my kind of photography.
And if on a tripod..another ball game.
Thank you for posting the excellent images.