Top 5 books, should be read in various subdivisions of photography

[PBelarge]

Colin
Thanks for spending your time trying to help me. I find this all very interesting. And I certainly can use all the help trying to improve my images.
I am going to take the information you have provided and try some test shots to see if I can discern the differences.

I love the quote you posted by Jay Maisel.

Thanks again
Pierre

[Turgay]

I will update my list of books, but before ... I want to share an article presenting a graph about S/N ratios for various ISO values over raw levels. It is interesting to see that how high ISO values beat low ISOs at the shadow region without any difference at the highlight region.

I have not read the entire article yet: Noise, Dynamic Range and Bit Depth in Digital SLRs by Emil Martinec

[Colin Southern]

I will update my list of books, but before ... I want to share an article presenting a graph about S/N ratios for various ISO values over raw levels. It is interesting to see that how high ISO values beat low ISOs at the shadow region without any difference at the highlight region.

I have not read the entire article yet: Noise, Dynamic Range and Bit Depth in Digital SLRs by Emil Martinec

That guy deserves a doctorate after that lot!

[MilT0s]

Turgay thank you VERY much for pointing this article!!

[Turgay]

Hope it helps, Miltos. Concise and very informative about noise sources. But, the above graph is illusive alone. I'm planning to read the complete article in this weekend.