On 26 Oct 2005 at 16:34, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Just a quick comment. While looking at the original PEF file for the Pile > of Leaves pic that was recently posted, I noticed that it was shot @ 1600 > ISO. I'm quite surprised (and pleased) at how little noise there is, and > noise reduction was turned off in the camera. Maybe I'm too ignorant to > know what to expect, but the pic and the original PEF sure look better than > I'd > imagined an 1600 ISO pic would look. Maybe it's the light?
It's pretty good isn't it, low light scenes that I once really could only shoot in B&W I now shoot in colour generally with great success. Filtering the noise that there is in high ISO shots with one of the new intelligent NR programs like NoiseNinja or NeatImage can produce extremely impressive results. The in camera NR isn't designed to reduce the random noise that is prevalent in high ISO images, it's designed to eliminate the spots caused by "hot" or "stuck" pixels in the array, since these kinds of problems generally only become apparent over longer exposures the NR function only kicks in at 1/4 second or longer from recollection. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
