One dull afternoon when the Birdy Bistro was in total shade I decided to take a couple of photos at ISO 12800 with the Canon 70D to see what the results would be like. That gave me a chance to get a reasonable hand held speed:
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| ISO 12800 400mm f8 1/500 sec |
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| ISO 12800 400mm f7.1 1/500 sec |
Much better than I expected. There is grain in the background but not nearly as much as I thought there would be. There is a drop in contrast ratio which is to be expected in such dull conditions but I gave the photos a small amount of cropping, a sharpness boost and a boost in definition with iPhoto. No attempt was made to reduce the grain.
Impressive. I've never had much joy with noise reduction. I find it better to over expose a stop or two as most luminence noise shows in the dark bits.
ReplyDeleteAdrian: I find attempts to reduce noise just lake things less sharp all over.
Deletethey look pretty great to me!
ReplyDeleteI was very impressed TWG.
DeleteThat is quite impressive. A great camera, for sure. The photographer is not too bad either. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Wilma.
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