Originally posted by lithedreamer What makes 'sunny' the most common still shooting situation? It certainly isn't where I live.
You don't need "sunny" to take picture at low isos settings. Even in bad weather, in daylight, you don't need to crank the iso that much and all camera can go iso 800/1600 and do a great job... If there something interresting to capture to begin with. And you can push it to iso 3200/6400 is the light is interresting and still get nice results. If the light is bad, iso 50 is going to look bad too.
I have been in vacation in Ireland, britany, iceland, for that last one I had only a compact camera. The weather was far from being always sunny. This was never a problem of high iso. This was maybe sometime a problem of unterresting lighting and that many subjects look better on a sunny day than on a cloudy day. But that more complex than that. In Tanzania, the light was harsh most of the time and I got some of the best shots on overcast day because the light was better.
Ireland, a snapshot: f/8, 1/200, iso 80. Weather isn't exactly sunny.
Ireland, at night, 1/50, iso 400, f/2.4. The DA35 f/2.4 helped more for a much lower noise than a fancy camera. That's K5 here. 5 year old technology.
DA15, K3, iso 6400, 1/5s. No issue !
Would that would have looked better at iso 6400 f/5.6 with KP and kit lens or maybe even iso 12800 f/8 to get the max sharpness rather than 1600 f/2.8 with K3 or K5... Don't think so