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High ISO noise - pleasantly surprised
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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 293463" data-attributes="member: 8705"><p>Coming from the D70 and then D300s cameras I've historically viewed anything above ISO 1600 ans something only suitable for the brave. When I got the D800 and D7100 bodies I started to realise that the sensor technology had moved along such that 6400 was very useable, certainly on the D800, with the D7100 not being a huge way behind. Have made this discovery I was no longer concerned about setting my auto ISO at 3200 or 6400 safe in the knowledge that it was better than pulling it back in Lightroom. This morning I was thinking about this and tried some 12800 and 25600 shots (I've just never bothered before) with the D800 and I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the results. The shots were not taken in near darkness, just my living room with no lights on. In taking the shots I did the following:</p><p></p><p>** Use raw.</p><p></p><p>1. Exposed the picture properly in the first place. I think people have a tendency to use a higher than normal ISO but then under expose to avoid going even higher. I think you are better going higher on the ISO, however I know some articles suggest this is just a light amp anyway.</p><p>2. Imported to Lightroom as a raw and adjusted any of the basic settings required and removed any sharpening.</p><p>3. Loaded Photoshop and ran Nik define. It does a good job at default.</p><p>4. Resized the image to 3000 pixels on the long side. My logic being that this is still a high quality 10" print resolution. This reduction loses noise and makes things look sharper.</p><p>5. Ran pro contrast from Nik Colour efex. I'm doing this on everything now.</p><p>6. Run the Nik output sharpener.</p><p></p><p>I also added some vibrance as the high ISO images do not have the colour depth or dynamic range of the low ISO files.</p><p></p><p>Prior to processing the images didn't look too great, but afterwards I was pleased.</p><p></p><p>This is not going to be my default setting moving forward, but if I need shutter speed in low light, something that VR can't fix, this has given me some confidence.</p><p></p><p>Note that this is more of a modern sensor thread rather than a D800 promotion, although this camera does it quite well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geoffc, post: 293463, member: 8705"] Coming from the D70 and then D300s cameras I've historically viewed anything above ISO 1600 ans something only suitable for the brave. When I got the D800 and D7100 bodies I started to realise that the sensor technology had moved along such that 6400 was very useable, certainly on the D800, with the D7100 not being a huge way behind. Have made this discovery I was no longer concerned about setting my auto ISO at 3200 or 6400 safe in the knowledge that it was better than pulling it back in Lightroom. This morning I was thinking about this and tried some 12800 and 25600 shots (I've just never bothered before) with the D800 and I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the results. The shots were not taken in near darkness, just my living room with no lights on. In taking the shots I did the following: ** Use raw. 1. Exposed the picture properly in the first place. I think people have a tendency to use a higher than normal ISO but then under expose to avoid going even higher. I think you are better going higher on the ISO, however I know some articles suggest this is just a light amp anyway. 2. Imported to Lightroom as a raw and adjusted any of the basic settings required and removed any sharpening. 3. Loaded Photoshop and ran Nik define. It does a good job at default. 4. Resized the image to 3000 pixels on the long side. My logic being that this is still a high quality 10" print resolution. This reduction loses noise and makes things look sharper. 5. Ran pro contrast from Nik Colour efex. I'm doing this on everything now. 6. Run the Nik output sharpener. I also added some vibrance as the high ISO images do not have the colour depth or dynamic range of the low ISO files. Prior to processing the images didn't look too great, but afterwards I was pleased. This is not going to be my default setting moving forward, but if I need shutter speed in low light, something that VR can't fix, this has given me some confidence. Note that this is more of a modern sensor thread rather than a D800 promotion, although this camera does it quite well. [/QUOTE]
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