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I agree on the sunny weather bit Jonathan , but I have also gotten good shots at up to 6400 iso if the subject is close enough .
Hi Jeff...welcome back.
You raise an interesting point about iso limits.
On Monday I was photographing woodland birds. Fast shutter speeds and small apertures (necessary for fast moving small birds, relatively close) nd poor light meant very high ISOs. I was disappointed with the results in terms of noise. Admittedly the ISO's were well above the 5000 but I have come to the conclusion that the D500 has distracting noise when used over 4000.
That's a surprise and disappointment because my old D3 could do 4000 as well as the D500.
Of course we know that, the smaller the pixels, the greater the propensity for noise in the images. So a 12mp FX D3 might be expected to have less noise sensitivity than a 24mp DX D500. But there was probably 10years development between the models and I would have hoped the noise improvements would have been as much in the normal use range, as in the upper registers. It's almost as though they concentrated exclsuively on flattening the noise grdient at the top end and forgot to do anything in the lower middle ie <10000
I am coming to the conclusion that if the UK light won't give me 1/1000 @ f8 at <3000 iso....there's little value trying to photograph birds. Might as well just take the binoculars for a walk.
Last edited on Tue Dec 11th, 2018 17:36 by Eric
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