"Trevor" <trevor_at_home.net> wrote in message 

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> "Robert Coe" <bob_at_1776.COM> wrote in message 

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>> Yeah, but remember that it's a logarithmic scale. So when you get that 

>> high, a

>> one-stop difference can have a seemingly huge effect on the ISO number.

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> 1600 was about max for color film, so a 7 stop increase is none too 

> shabby IMO.

> At this rate it's going to make IS/VR redundant pretty soon! :-)

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> Trevor.

For shutter speed, perhaps, but I still want a stable viewfinder image, so 

in-lens VR/IS for me.  I would buy image-stabilised binoculars if I could 

afford them!

David