On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:00:04PM +1000, Tanya Love wrote: > > 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?
Speaking as a *ist-D user, I'd expect to see at least that much noise with the *ist-D. Looking at the second shot, the metering is being blown out by the very bright part of the scene visible through the window. This means that effectively you're underexposing the dark parts of the interior by 1.5 or 2 stops - a guaranteed recipe for increased noise. It's possible (maybe even probable) that some of the noise comes from JPEG artifacts, and that you'll see better results once you process the RAW data. -- 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.
