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Professor Newman on… The new standard

One of the topics plagued by misinformation is ‘ISO’. If you look around common photographic information sources on the topic it’s hard to find one that is correct, and many are grossly misleading. The gold standard for what ‘ISO’ means is, of course, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Its standard, which defines ‘Photography – Digital still cameras – Determination of exposure index,

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