Photo sharing: High ISO

[havoc315]

Fuji X-E2 and 55-200 at ISO 6400. This was shot in RAW and cropped and converted to Jpeg in LR. The NR slider was on 5 so pretty much SOOC. There is plenty of detail here for high ISO.

Beautiful Hawk by Harry Shields, on Flickr

I've been pretty impressed by your high ISO shots on the Fuji. That's a lot of detail for ISO 6400.... Matches most full frame I've seen.

Anyway, another 6400

dance-45.jpg by Havoc315, on Flickr

 

[HPS3]

Havoc, I find that all the current camera are good at high iso when exposed correctly. I don't shoot at high iso very often but I'm not scared to do it.

I really like your dance photos, what lenses are you using? On another note, the A6000 looks great.

 

[havoc315]

Havoc, I find that all the current camera are good at high iso when exposed correctly. I don't shoot at high iso very often but I'm not scared to do it.

I really like your dance photos, what lenses are you using? On another note, the A6000 looks great.

My new baby. My new very old baby. An original version of the Minolta 200/2.8 prime. 28 years old... And the sharpest corner to corner lens I've ever used.

The a6000 does look good. Sadly for me, since I'm pretty committed to the a-mount. The more success Sony has with the e-mount, the sooner the a-mount dies.
And I can't imagine using my 200 on an adapted body unstabilized. Even with stabilization, I need to shoot at least 1/160, preferably 1/250 to really get a good shot wide open. The narrow depth of field is very unforgiving.

 

[havoc315]

You wouldn't expect to need high ISO for this shot in outdoor shaded daylight.. but with 1/400 and F8, the camera boosted the ISO to 12800..

zoo-92.jpg by Havoc315, on Flickr

 

[zackiedawg]

Playing around with my new A6000...here's ISO25,600, JPG, no processing:

 

[MikeandReneePlus5]

I think my Canon t2i is pretty bad at high ISO (1600 or above).

Anyone concur or disagree?

 

[havoc315]

Playing around with my new A6000...here's ISO25,600, JPG, no processing:

That's raw without processing? Or jpeg with regular in camera noise reduction?

 

[mom2rtk]

I think my Canon t2i is pretty bad at high ISO (1600 or above).

Anyone concur or disagree?

I'm OK with my T2i up to 3200 with a bit of noise reduction. But I had older Rebel models prior to that and see what an improvement it is. I believe it is the same sensor used in the 7D as well as the newer Txi models since then.

 

[zackiedawg]

That's raw without processing? Or jpeg with regular in camera noise reduction?

It's a JPG from the camera. High ISO NR was set to 'low'. Nice that they allow JPG NR options now of high, low, and OFF...which they never used to offer in JPGs on the NEX models before. It does produce a lot of noise in OFF, but if you use NR software after the fact, is likely to allow preservation of a few more shadow details because you can set your own balance between how much NR to apply in post. I may actually try out the NR off option for dark ride shooting at Disney in July when I'm up there next...just to see how much noise there really is in those dark ride situations.

 

[havoc315]

It's a JPG from the camera. High ISO NR was set to 'low'. Nice that they allow JPG NR options now of high, low, and OFF...which they never used to offer in JPGs on the NEX models before. It does produce a lot of noise in OFF, but if you use NR software after the fact, is likely to allow preservation of a few more shadow details because you can set your own balance between how much NR to apply in post. I may actually try out the NR off option for dark ride shooting at Disney in July when I'm up there next...just to see how much noise there really is in those dark ride situations.

Yes... If that shot had no noise reduction, it would be shocking.

But it's still a very good result for a aps-c jpeg. I'm not sure the full frame a99 is much better. I really never go above 12,800 on it.

 

[zackiedawg]

So far, I'm finding I'm comfortable up to around ISO8000 on the A6000...unless the intent is to use the photo at a 100% crop closeup, or printed poster-size. For most normal small to medium print needs, or at typical screen res sizes like 1920x pixels, at ISO8000 the noise is essentially not visible and detail and color retention are still very good. I will push to ISO12800 with some noise reduction as needed - after working it over in post production a bit - ISO25,600 will be the emergency-only range, but nice to know it's not completely off limits. Contrast is just a bit low, and color is slightly affected, but the 24MP sensor still retains quite decent detail, enough that you could probably still make a pretty decent looking 8x10 print out of it with just a little post-processing help.

 

[bob100]

I think my Canon t2i is pretty bad at high ISO (1600 or above).

Anyone concur or disagree?

Canon 60D
(same sensor as your T2i

ISO 4000 !!

 

[havoc315]

zoo-92-Edit.jpg by Havoc315, on Flickr

ISO 12800 --- Yes, it was in good day light, but I was using a long lens with a teleconverter, further stopped down to keep it sharp. Probably could have gotten away with a slower shutter speed and another stop of aperture, and gotten the shot at ISO 3200 or 6400, but the flexibility of a usable 12800 helped out.
I believe I used Topaz DeNoise here. It was pretty noisy before editing, but retained a significant amount of detail even after noise reduction.

 

[havoc315]

Another 12,800, like the one above...
zoo-87.jpg by Havoc315, on Flickr

Left in a bit more "grain"

 

[havoc315]

ISO 6400

lyndhurst-56.jpg by Havoc315, on Flickr

 

[fractal]

Another 12,800, like the one above...
zoo-87.jpg by Havoc315, on Flickr

Left in a bit more "grain"

I like this more than the monkey picture. I would rather have a little more grain for more detail. Nice shot.

 

[Animagic!]

Not perfect but this was handheld, high ISO.

ISO 6400, 1/40 sec, 35mm, f/1.4

 

[Groucho]

12,800 and pushed a half-stop in Lightroom.

Let me outta here... by Groucho Dis, on Flickr

ISO 25,600:

Festival of the Lion King, crowd of lions by Groucho Dis, on Flickr

I have a few good 51,200 shots but nothing online that I could quickly find.

 

[HPS3]

Jeff, that FOTLK shot at 25600 looks cleaner than most of the shots here. And that's not FF......ssshhhhh!

 

[Groucho]

Jeff, that FOTLK shot at 25600 looks cleaner than most of the shots here. And that's not FF......ssshhhhh!

My interest in FF waned quite a bit when the K-5 came out .

I only wish the current 24mp sensor was that good... it's probably pretty close once you put in a little NR and downsample it, but man, that 16mp Sony sensor is astonishing.