Thanks for the advice Paul. That shot is actually a reject, it was underexposed as I had it set for exposure near a window and when I turned around the mothere and baby were playing like this so I just quickly shot a handful of them so as not to miss the moment, but the client won't get these regardless, as they are pretty crappy shots really. I only put this one up to show you guys the noise.
So, all this time, I've been doing things backwards?!? I've always been scared of the noise from the increased ISO settings so always preferred to keep it on ISO200 and underexpose if necessary. I had no idea that that would give me more noise than doing the opposite! ... and I have been shooting with the *istD for what, 5 years now?!? Lol! Is weird though, that I have never had this much noise doing it this way with the *istD, but you say that I should? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul stenquist Sent: Monday, 8 February 2010 2:36 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: over exposing to reduce noise?? On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:16 PM, Tanya Love wrote: > Ok, so woohoo! I finally got a couple of images uploaded. These are > FULL resolution, so biiiig files, but I wanted to put them up as that > so that you can truly see the noise that I am talking about. > > #1, shot with FA 50mm f1.7 @ f2.2, 1/125, ISO400, (shot in RAW+, and > this is from the jpg generated by it), no flash, handheld (which is > why I chose the faster shutterspeed). This entire shot WAS > underexposed by about 1.5 stops, so some noise is expected > 1.5 stops under will always give you a lot of noise. It's a nice shot, but you would have ended up with less noise if you shot at ISO 1200. I've tried it both way. It's the truth. Right on exposures are the path to less mode. That's true of the K7, the K20, the K10 and the *istD. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
