Digital cameras have far surpassed film in terms of sensitivity to light, with ISO equivalent speeds of up to 409,600, a number that is unfathomable in the realm of conventional film photography. Faster processors, as well as advances in software noise reduction techniques allow this type of processing to be executed the moment the photo is captured, allowing photographers to store images that have a higher level of refinement and would have been prohibitively time consuming to process with earlier generations of digital camera hardware. COUNT 5
QSN1 What types of cameras have proven to be much more sensitive to light than film? ANS1 Digital cameras QSN2 What ISO equivalent speeds can digital cameras obtain? ANS2 409,600 QSN3 What is responsible for these vast increases in speed? ANS3 Faster processors, as well as advances in software noise reduction techniques QSN4 What is one thing that limited speeds of older digital hardware? ANS4 prohibitively time consuming to process QSN5 What does the higher speed do for the images produced? ANS5 a higher level of refinement