What’s Coming Next from Canon?

[scyrene]

I think what people get confused by (as I was myself until I did some reading up about the physics of it) is the difference in the effect on noise of total light and that of light per unit area. Good explanation (the one that finally made it click for me) from Richard Butler on this DPreview thread, with the bit that I think people get led astray by in bold:


I know that's what you've been saying but it puts it in a slightly different way that I personally found easier.

That's fair enough, and this subject not particularly intuitive; but the bigger problem (on this forum and in the world generally) is when people who don't understand things cling doggedly to their ignorance in the face of any and all evidence and explanations. A little humility goes a long way - nobody knows everything, and all of us had to learn each thing for the first time once upon a time. But those people don't have that attitude, they start from a position of absolute self confidence (and even if they do finally concede, an apology is rarely forthcoming).