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I have found that the D500 gets noisy at 1000iso to about 4000 but at 6400 mine is clean again. If I'm going to know I need between 1000 - 4000 I use the old D3.
That's interesting Iain. I feel a test coming on, weather permitting, tomorrow.
I've long criticised Nikon for pushing 'acceptable' noise at much higher levels whilst the improvement at lower levels has lagged behind.
My D3 was relatively noise free to around 3000iso outdoors and 2000iso indoors. I would have much preferred this noise free ceiling to be lifted to around 5000, rather than being able to have noisey images at 64,400! The D850 is little better than the D3 below 2000 and probably inferior at 3000!
Whilst I accept that software can reduce noise, they all work by softening the image to some degree. Though this can be managed reasonably well with a bit of precision, the fact remains if noise were not there in the first instance, the image wouldn't need softening...... quite the reverse, it would respond to sharpening even better.
A camera that achieves noise free quality up to 5000 without any post processing intervention would get my vote.
Last edited on Wed Dec 9th, 2020 12:39 by Eric
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