Originally Posted by Daniel Browning
In some applications in which dynamic range is important, speed does not matter. Why isn't there a "landscape mode" or something with super low read noise? I would use it even if it took a second (or maybe even much longer) to read the image if it gave me very low read noise (and thus a few stops more DR).
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</div>Originally Posted by Daniel Browning
I looked at DXOMark. They give the D700 a dynamic range score of 12.2 stops and the 5DII a score of 11.9 stops. Doesn't this mean that the D700 has only 0.3 stops more dynamic range? What am I missing? (One way to reconcile this would be that the canon exposes for more highlight headroom than the Nikon, but I don't think that is true).