Low light, short exposure

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J-see

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After reading that question about the D810 in regards to noise I wondered what the cam would grab when shooting faster shutter during low light.

The settings in that post were 1/100s @ f/2.8 at a higher ISO. Being too lazy to go out, I took a shot out of the window here. I also used my native ISO.

SOOC:

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Processed there's quite some noise. It's been a while since I had a shot with this much.

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But all in all it's darn amazing what our cams can do.
 
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patrick in memphis

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i agree, our cameras are pretty amazing and keep in mind that light is cumulative as opposed to instabt? like our eyes. when im taking photos of the milkyway galaxy arms or stars. the light that is picked up by our sensors is far greater than that of our eyes. frankly im suprised that 100s ss only got you that dark image. so either your iso was too low or your camera mis-metered the light. try to push your boundaries and go shoot at night(it forces you to learn what your camera can really do)
 
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J-see

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patrick in memphis said:
i agree, our cameras are pretty amazing and keep in mind that light is cumulative as opposed to instabt? like our eyes. when im taking photos of the milkyway galaxy arms or stars. the light that is picked up by our sensors is far greater than that of our eyes. frankly im suprised that 100s ss only got you that dark image. so either your iso was too low or your camera mis-metered the light. try to push your boundaries and go shoot at night(it forces you to learn what your camera can really do)
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I shot manual at 100 ISO only to see what would happen. I never had taken a shot with those settings and was curious if there even would be something visible. It amazed me.

When I'm really bored one evening, I'll check how far I can push it at short exposure.
 
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Fortkentdad

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Sitting in a hotel room with not much to do looked out at the snow falling under a parking lot light. Left the tripod in the truck and thought no way I can shoot that. But then thought I should see just how high can I go with this ISO on my D610. I had my new-to-me vintage Tamron 200-400 F5.6 with me so lets give it a go. I did not have any fancy software either so just a minor touch up with a freebie that kinda works - ever so slowly on my old laptop.

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F/10
1/10 second
ISO 5000
330mm
 
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patrick in memphis

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In this scenario the light does the same thing as a strobe to stop/freeze the action...it's always fun to push our skill boundaries....I use Evernote on my phone to keep a list of exif data on different shoot types so I can get a ballpark setting in the future
 
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