Every back maker should have an option to bin the pixels in exchange for hi-iso. Because if you are there and you have a camera, you need that camera to be able to shoot in bad light. Not everybody does studio. I do very little studio, and a lot of people shots.
Edmund
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I respect your opinion, but I disagree. But that is of course IMHO
As long as there is an option to shoot high ISO, you can do the binning in the editor.
When doing it in the editor you can decide, how much resolution you sacrifice for how much noise reduction.
You can change the amount and try different amounts as often as you like, while when the camera does it the "additional" pixels are gone.
There are images which show less noise than others, because of the scene or shooting parameters. Why sacrifice resolution on them for a generic binning.
I find the back/sensor developers should invest the time in improving noise performance on the full resolution and leave the binning stuff to LR and PS or whatever editor you fancy.
I know that the dalsa sensor does not do something fancy when binning, it just adds the values of the cells, so no "real" improvement can be gained by that over binning in the editor. I do not know for the Kodak sensors, but I doubt that it does something more complicated than the Dalsa.
I personally see camera binning only as option for a system for which the images, that fall out of it, have to be "finished" like a P&S.
On a system where you will touch the files anyway and try to get the most out of them, I see it as an option that will not be used often. Because when you shot using binning there is no way back to higher resolution and you might often have that nagging feeling that the shot would probably have been better, when you would have shot it in full-res and than scaled it youreself or used that new noise reduction tool or.....
Regards
SH
