"Fredrik Eriksson" <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 May 2010 00:24:07 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>
>> Second, if you're talking about the ISO setting rather than the
>> exposure, that's about how much you pre-bias the electrons in the
>> sensor. Basically, you load up each pixel of the sensor with some
>> electrons, and if light kicks out an electron, you add one to the
>> intensity of the light there. Adding more electrons makes it easier to
>> get kicked out.
> 
> No, there is no pre-bias; that is not how the sensors work. The ISO
> setting only affects amplification of the analogue sensor output.

There you go. So if you have the raw sensor output, you can change the ISO 
setting after the fact?

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