Dear Ian, Dear All,
As I promised earlier, I took your photos and made prints of many sizes at all ISO levels. Next the prints were scanned at 300 dpi and 100% crops are presented and commented on my website
http://jacek.kwasniewski.eu.org/gallery/album97
You are welcome to watch and read.
General conclusion: FZ50 produces unexpectedly good big prints at relatively high ISO levels. Together with OIS you can made jumbo sized prints. Next: watching prints and watching photos on screen can give quite different impressions. See my "test" on website. The short summary of my work see below
Panasonic FZ50 ISO performance. Prints - how big can be made. Based on Ian' photos.
size
ISO 4x6 8x12 12x18 16x24
100 yes yes yes yes
200 yes yes yes yes
400 yes yes yes poor
800 yes yes poor no
1600 yes no no no
Jacek Kwasniewski, Warsaw, Poland
jacek952@gmail.com