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D300 v1.02 firmware

Modifications Enabled with "A" firmware ver. 1.02
An issue that, in rare cases, caused vertical bands (lines) to appear in images captured at shutter speeds slower than 8s has been resolved.

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[...] thanks to the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a company called Rohm, reports nikkei.net.[...] They’ say they've jointly developed a new image sensor that has over six times the sensitivity of a conventional silicon-based device. So it detects light across a broader spectrum.

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ISO102400, here we come