John Coyle wrote:
Thanks Larry - the shot of the skater girl and the rickshaw driver was one of the quickest grabs I've ever made! It was a completely different shot half a second either way. I must say I'm not so impressed with the high ISO capabilities of the K5ii as some others have been: the last shot was taken at 6400ISO, and the noise has been suppressed as far as I can go without making it mushy! I have the camera set at "Auto" for noise reduction - might have to try different settings for this. I tried the other night some shots at 25600 and 51200 and they were basically unusable out of the camera. Thoughts anyone?
I do as little noise reduction as possible in camera. I don't trust a two dollar processor to make intelligent decisions, much less the people who program it. I much prefer to just capture the basic data, in RAW, then throw enough processing power at it with my desktop that Seymour Cray would have been green with envy.
I've taken shots with a K-5 at 3200 that had horrible noise, and I've got some taken at 10K-25K that look like the color version of Tri-X. One trick is that you have to manage the whole process to optimize the final image. Sufficient exposure is key, and contrary to not blowing out highlights. In challenging light, when I can, I will bracket my shots for this very reason, because it's quicker and easier to just bracket the shot in the first place than it is to take the shot, check the histogram, and then if need be take more shots to try to nail the exposure. Also, when you chimp the preview, you're chimping the in camera JPEG and JPEGS always lie.
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