Re: Shutter lifetime?

pprovaz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ow, shooting the sky, I understand. You have to have a camera with the lowest
noise at high ISO, the A7s is a good choice for that, according to
snapsort.com server measurements
(http://snapsort.com/explore/best-digital-cameras/2300-iso-low-light-48-months-recent).
And high megapixels, of course.

For good night shots with Powershots I had to use the 15 sec shutter speed
(firmware maximum) and raise the ISO virtually by multiple captures, then
blend the images into one, for the lowest noise. But due to Earth rotational
speed you probably cannot use that technique.

I would say all the USB webcams out there have far worse optics (noise and
picture), than the cheapest compact camera, unfortunately. Cheap plastics
lens, crappy noisy sensors. There are few exceptions, indeed, for ex. the
latest Logitech webcams with a fine Carl Zeiss optics, but again, the price
is 10 times higher than old Powershot SX100, and the noise/ISO level is
unknown. So it's really a hard choice to find something reliable without
spending hundreds $s.

On the other side - if the SX100 will break after 100 000 shots, I will
replace it for another $20 piece quite happily ;)





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