What is ISO - Camera ISO and the Exposure Triangle Explained [Ep 2]

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Download your FREE ebook "Exposure: The Ultimate Guide" here: bit.ly/exposure-ebook 00:00 The Exposure Triangle 00:51 What is ISO? 01:31 ISO Meaning and Examples 02:36 Shooting in the Dark 04:21 Noise & Grain (High ISO) 05:05 Dynamic Range & Native ISO 06:04 Adding Texture with Grain 06:38 Film Grain vs Digital Noise 08:15 Final Takeaways

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I’m going to be that guy. ISO in digital cameras doesn’t change anything about the sensor’s sensitivity. In actuality, it changes the gain applied to the signal gathered by the sensor through the lens, and doesn’t change the physical amount of light recorded by the camera. ISO (or ASA) in film does actually represent a difference in how film stocks react to different amounts of light. Digital sensors have a fixed sensitivity, and changing ISO only changes the gain of the output. This is really important for cinematographers to really understand. If you step outside and want to film in broad, afternoon daylight, you may think that turning your ISO down will let you record your subject on the ground and the blue sky and clouds above without clipping (losing detail in the highlights), when in actuality, you’re hamstringing yourself and clipping faster. To properly acquire extreme highlights in camera, you actually have to boost your ISO and reduce the physical exposure by stopping down your aperture or adding neutral density filters to your lens. Camera manufacturers will usually specify dynamic range values at different ISO’s, and you’ll find that higher ISO = more dynamic range in the highlights. The inverse is true for low ISO, and low ISO = more dynamic range in the shadows. This has serious implications for how you choose to expose a scene, and misunderstanding digital ISO to be the same thing as film ISO will lead you to make incorrect choices as you try to work.

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I was going to be that guy myself but luckily you were faster. Higher ISO stretches the contrast and dynamic range of the medium, in both film and digital. Indeed, ISO is not something just to be pushed or stepped down depending on availability of light.

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