Another Indoor Sports Low Light question.

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NikoniteNewbie

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I recently purchased the Nikon D7000 and attempted shooting indoor volleyball with the "knock-around" 18-105mm f3.5-5.6 lens. I knew going into this was going to be difficult. I shot mainly in Manual Mode and found 1/400th sec stopped action desirably, F-stop whatever the zoom was set at (3.5-5.6) and ended up with ISO set at 6400. It worked but as you can imagine when zooming in the pictures are noisy/grainy. Post processing does help clean up some noise but "softens" the edges (not good). I did not experiement any with White Balance and was always just on Auto. I'm trying again this weekend with a new 85mm f1.8 lens. Although I do expect better results, a couple questions:
1. Are you better off shooting at a lower ISO and having under-exposed pictures and use processing software to correct the underexposure...i.e will you get better results correcting exposure or noise?
2. Has anyone had any luck with High ISO NR? Is this a good option and what do you lose? There's only about 7 lines of info in the manual.
 
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fotojack

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If you're going to shoot in Manual Mode, and want to use YOUR ISO settings, remember to turn off Auto ISO in your menu, otherwise the Auto ISO will compensate by setting itself to the available light. Hence the reason for the high ISO shots.
 
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NikoniteNewbie

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fotojack said:
If you're going to shoot in Manual Mode, and want to use YOUR ISO settings, remember to turn off Auto ISO in your menu, otherwise the Auto ISO will compensate by setting itself to the available light. Hence the reason for the high ISO shots.
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Thanks. I was the one selecting 6400 ISO. Tried lower but they were a little too dark. I've seen a few other posts on the subject with two different opinions. One says keep ISO what it needs to be and the other says keep it lower and correct in post processing.
 
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