Geebax
First Officer
Australia
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With a digital sensor and a fixed aperture lens, there are only really two factors that can be varied to affect the exposure, exposure time and video gain. ISO is really a 'manufactured' parameter, because it has no equivalent in modern sensors. Its original meaning was as a measure of the sensitivity of the emulsion in film, but since we are now using electronic sensors, we have a new parameter to play with, the video gain of the system. Digital sensors still have a native sensitivity rating, and that is still measured as an ISO reading. But we can vary the gain of the image, so that has become variable ISO.
The Phantom gives you the ability to vary the exposure by changing the exposure time, as the shutter speed. This is quite effective, and does not have the disadvantage of increasing the noise in the image, which is what you would get if you made the gain variable.
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