It’s 40,000 ISO.
They do raise it briefly at the end to 400,000, but as the voice-over says, it’s ugly as sin.
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I forsee amatuer porn taking a great leap forward.
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NZ Customs are sneaky. The threshold for Import Duty is only NZ$400 value, but if the item comes close to that they add the shipping cost and insurance value to the item value to tip it over. Then it’s NZ$150 Duty and GST at 15% on top of the cost of item + p&P … Currency fluctuations mean it’s difficult to predict whether you’ll be hit, particularly if an item has a long lead time. 
They do tend to ignore things that are labeled “Commercial Sample”, value $0 though … 
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For further reading, I suggest Lance Keimig’s Finding Your Way in the Dark, Gabe Biderman’s Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, or Jill Waterman’s Night and Low-Light Photography (mostly film-based, but the techniques are sound).
I also like Troy Paiva’s Lost America site, Joe Reifer, and O. Winston Link.
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At it’s price, it’s something you should rent first. But if it were me I’d be looking at the 20mm f2.8 and accept that you’ll have to compensate for that stop with a higher ISO. I mean, a third of the price to go a little wider and compromise on the ISO just a bit? Sounds more of what I’d want to look at, especially in a club where things can go awry in a hurry. The pancake lens will let you be a little less obtrusive as well.
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No idea about that. I was just quoting the OP. What induced me to reply was the idea that the daylight/nighttime distinction could in practical terms be rendered a ‘human bias’ by this development. Silly humans, thinking there’s more privacy in the (relative) dark.
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