I remember a long time ago.... about 18 months..... I thought it would be interesting to contemplate and camera w/ interchangeable sensors - perhaps just different cameras is the pragmatic answer - but with something as low light possible as this sensor it becomes an interesting question of having a "low light" body, a ultra high resolution body, HDR body, etc. Maybe someday in the future there will be an ultra low light, ultra dynamic range, ultra resolution sensor, but until then.... (yes I know the d800 is a heck of body/sensor, but I am suggesting something like this new sensor).
.03 lux - what kind of ISO conversion (I am not savvy enough in the algerbra to do the multi step conversion to ISO) properly light by .03 lux like the one on the video - 1 ft to the subject, 6ft to the camera, and what looks like a f1.2 lens. Or the jacked up sensitivity of the full moon shot. EDIT - just found a web site that suggested this would be about 400k iso +/- for the incense shot - implies something like 1mill for a .01 lux (moon shot) that is that "clean" an image ooof.
the next gee whiz moment is the quality of the image - prior night vision hardware was very noisy - so what level of light has the same image quality/visibility for our heroes in uniformed services or the biologist researcher in some far off jungle?
I just enjoy marveling at all this cool stuff and images.
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