hmm. I don’t read the Luminous Landscape that often, but it`s my understanding that medium and large format digital backs excel at ISO 50, and start to degrade before ISO 800. That’s probably because fashion and product photographers know how to light a scene, and landscape photographers have tripods. But sports photographers need to use crappy natural lighting to capture pictures of fast moving athletes; and they use full frame dlsrs. Canikon’s engineers have responded.