Benefits

•Low noise (fine grain)

•Good color saturation

•Good tonal gradation

•Good noise/sensitivity balance

•Good sharpness, color and tone

•Can be used with a good range of apertures and shutter speeds

•Very sensitive

•Can be used with fast shutter speeds, large aperture numbers or long lenses

•Good depth of field

Disadvantages

•Not very sensitive

•Needs to be used with fast lens or tripod

•Not the absolute best quality

•May not be fast enough for some low light or action scenarios

•Obvious noise throughout the picture

•Poor picture quality

Best uses

•Studio

•Still life with tripod

•Outdoors on bright day

•General hand-held shooting

•Sports

•Low light situations with no flash

•Indoors