How significant is the influence of score in „dark frames” category on the final result of a camera test?
“Dark frames” mark is a partial score in the “Noise and RAW image quality” chapter. The comprehensive score of this chapter is influenced by partial scores from such subsections as: RAW file quality, RAW noise and “dark frames”. First two categories are given 1.0 weight, the “dark frames” category – just 0.7 weight. It happens very often, then, that even a drastic change in the “dark frames” category doesn’t change the final result of a reflex camera or change it by 0.1 point. We realize that people not interested in photographs with long exposition time (night photography, astrophotography) automatically won’t be interested in this category result. The aim of our test, though, is to answer as many questions concerning image quality as possible and describing any application you can think of. After all, some part of our Readers think the result in this category is important and we don’t see any reason why we should gloss over it and/or remove it from our scale. The fact that other phot
