Originally posted by pingflood I agree numbers are being pushed just to be "one better" than the competition often, but I am betting that ISO 200k would suffice for a small picture in a newspaper, which might be better than not getting the shot at all.
I guess so. Obviously if you were shooting an event, you could also just use manual mode, set your shutter speed and aperture for what you thought would work, iso for 6400 and then push the photo as much as need be. At those levels, the camera is just push processing the end photo anyway.