Photography is about light and how best to capture it. We photographers struggled hard everyday for the best light for our subject therefore it is every photographers dream to be able to photograph in the lowest possible light and get away with good photos. To realize this dream camera companies strive hard to produce sensors sensitive enough to create images with minimal noise in the most under-lit situations. Modern cameras are said to be able to photograph ( or at least autofocus) in near-darkness. Is this finally a reality?
In practice low-light photography is more than just high-tech stuff. Even armed with a super-low noise sensor camera at ISO6400 and a f1.0 lens a photographer needs to understand the nature and the character of the light he is tackling. Soft or hard, natural or artificial, warm or cold. He must also learn his meter well to really come out with the image he wants. This is what most new photographer think, that their gear will sort it out for them. Most of the time its the skill or reading light that matters most.
To some photographer, low light is simply not enough light.
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