When a company like Canon, or, well, any company, really, produces a camera that claims to shoot as high as ISO 4,500,000, such as the MH20F-SH, it makes one wonder if it’s all just a marketing gimmick or if it’s actually really any good at the extremely low light levels that demand such high sensitivity.
The video was shared to the Canon USA YouTube channel, where Downing talks about the ME20F-SH to shoot some scenes of fluorescent insects and plants in virtually no light – which Canon believes might have proven impossible for any other camera available at the time.
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The Canon ME20F-SH is getting a little old now – it was released in 2015. It houses just a 2.26-megapixel sensor capable of shooting 1080p footage at 60 frames per second, so it’s not exactly bleeding edge these days. But when it was released in 2015, it was rather impressive and there’s still little out there today that can touch it in terms of its high ISO performance, and it still fetches the princely sum of $20,000 (which is actually $10K less than the release price five years ago). [via Canon Watch]
