Canon 10D - Graining

[snewham]

I seem to get quite bad graining in my photos when I use an ISO higher than 400 with my 10D. Particularly around 800/1200 ISO. Is this common or is there something wrong with my camera?

It happens on all of my lenses so it must be a problem with the camera itself?


Thanks for the help
scott :hail:

 

[EOS_JD]

Yes normal - The 10D images are not as clean at higher ISO than the 20D and more up to date cameras. Noise at 800/1600 is pretty bad. To combat noise get the best exposure you can in-camera and use something like NoiseNinja to remove noise as part of your post processing.

 

[DigitalDiva]

Very normal. I see slight noise at 400 and above. 800 is very obvious. 1600....fuggedaboudit!

 

[snewham]

ok that's good. I've also got an old eos 300 and that's not as bad. Thinking of updating soon as my equipment is getting old now even though it cost me an arm and a leg when I bought it

 

[EOS_JD]

Thinking of updating soon as my equipment is getting old now even though it cost me an arm and a leg when I bought it

That's the way of new technology! look at the pices of computers!!! My first was a 486DX 33MHz with a 100Mb hard disk, 4 Mb RAM, and a standard video card and an expensive 15" CRT. Cost me £1300 ($2600)!!!

Now you can buy something about 100x faster with 500Gb of space and 2Gb RAM, 19" TFT for a fraction of the price.... So it will happen with digital imaging too which is still in its relative infancy.