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 07/21/2006 01:46:19 AM · #51
Originally posted by hokie:
I shoot a lot of indoor concerts with no flash and high ISO (800 to 1600).

I'll admit that the Canon 5D is wonderful at low light shadow noise but...if you expose your shots properly and play it cool on pushing your exposures I think most good DSLR's can get nice results.

The below shot is at 1600 ISO, 1/160th sec, shot hand-held with a 70-200 mm zoom with Vibration Resistance at 2.8 AP. Just cropped and slight leveling. No noise reduction or pushing the exposure.



You definitely have to be careful with exposures and not every shot is great but I have lots of photos just like the one above appear in magazines at full page ( 8 x 11 or so). Just be careful.


I totally agree - exposure is CRITICAL when shooting high ISO. There is almost no latitude.
 07/21/2006 02:13:31 AM · #52
I agree that you can't underexpose and push it (at any ISO) and not get some noise.
My 30D has shown noise at ISO 200 and none at 800 or 1600 - seems to be very dependent on the accuracy of the exposure.

that said, I think canon camera ares less noisy than nikon, model to model, ISO to ISO.

I've also noticed that noise is not nearly as noticeble in a print as it is on the monitor.

heres an ISO 800 shot from my 30D - no noise. none.

and another, at 800


ISO 200, but underexposed - noise.

I went looking for an ISO 1600 shot and was surprised this was one! This image has some processing on it, but there is/was no noise.


Message edited by author 2006-07-21 02:15:37.
 07/21/2006 11:13:23 AM · #53
Originally posted by Megatherian:

I totally agree - exposure is CRITICAL when shooting high ISO. There is almost no latitude.

Yea, the smallest adjustment seems to bring out the noise. Even contrast adjustmets seem to increase the noise.

WB is also very important. Changing the WB too much seems to add noise also. Could be that adjusting the color has the same effect on one of the RGB channels that changing the EV has on the whole picture.
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