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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 735532" data-attributes="member: 13196">A week or so ago, I took some photos of a sparrow up in our tree (using a D7200). My ISO was set to a max of 5000 which I hit. My shutter speed was either 1/800&quot; or 1/1000&quot;. The images were still rather dark. The sun was out that morning, but the sparrow was covered in the shadowed areas of the leaves. So ISO 3200 definitely won't be enough for low light situations. The problem is juggling the noise vs. the exposure as Jake mentioned. Although I only have a D7200, ISO 5000 does create quite a bit of noise especially when the exposure still needs to be increased. A couple people here alluded to or posted a video (possibly by Steve Perry) who suggested capping the ISO at 4000. You definitely need a decent noise reduction program. I use the Nik Collection with Dfine. It works well, but what I've seen of Jake's images with Topaz, that software definitely seems to handle noise much better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hark, post: 735532, member: 13196"] A week or so ago, I took some photos of a sparrow up in our tree (using a D7200). My ISO was set to a max of 5000 which I hit. My shutter speed was either 1/800" or 1/1000". The images were still rather dark. The sun was out that morning, but the sparrow was covered in the shadowed areas of the leaves. So ISO 3200 definitely won't be enough for low light situations. The problem is juggling the noise vs. the exposure as Jake mentioned. Although I only have a D7200, ISO 5000 does create quite a bit of noise especially when the exposure still needs to be increased. A couple people here alluded to or posted a video (possibly by Steve Perry) who suggested capping the ISO at 4000. You definitely need a decent noise reduction program. I use the Nik Collection with Dfine. It works well, but what I've seen of Jake's images with Topaz, that software definitely seems to handle noise much better. [/QUOTE]

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