Last night the kids, doggies and I picked up cousin Leo and went for a night walk on Pillar Mountain. No flashlights allowed. Just for the heck of it I decided to bring along my camera and see what kind of pictures I could take at REALLY high ISO settings. So I set the ISO to the highest it would go - 25,600! and away I went.
What's amazing is that the camera could even take pictures - it was a cloudy night and practically pitch dark up there. But the lights from town reflecting off of the clouds seem to have provided just enough light to take pictures - and all hand held without a tripod too. Admittedly they are super grainy!
The hardest part was that I could not see the knobs etc on the camera. I sort of just turned knobs by memory and got it all to work. I could see on the screen when the settings changed, but it was pretty much adjusting by 'braille'.
Anyway, I got some pretty cool pictures. I'll have to try it again - maybe with a tripod.
Patrick
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