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ArticleCompact Digital Cameras Gear Guides & Reviews - by Mason Resnick, September 9, 2008

A lot has been written recently about the adverse effect of shooting at ISO 400 or higher with a compact camera, but there's relatively little about what happens to image quality when you deliberately choose the camera's lowest ISO setting.

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