What the highest iso can you use?

[robbins.photo]

The way i look at it, i would rather a noisy image, i can clean that up to an extent, and if you don't print too big it will not be see, rather than an slow shutter speed and risking motion blur that is virtually unfixable.

John

Hey now! Motion blur is not unfixable. Well, you know, assuming you took another shot at a higher shutter speed of the same thing - lol

I'm with you on this one. High ISO can and does get noisy, and sometimes if it's shot at really high ISO it's noisy enough that fixing it will cost you some sharpness and color contrast in the final image, etc - but for me that's a much better trade off than getting an image that is basically completely unusable.

 

[Juga]

The way i look at it, i would rather a noisy image, i can clean that up to an extent, and if you don't print too big it will not be see, rather than an slow shutter speed and risking motion blur that is virtually unfixable.

John

Hey now! Motion blur is not unfixable. Well, you know, assuming you took another shot at a higher shutter speed of the same thing - lol

I'm with you on this one. High ISO can and does get noisy, and sometimes if it's shot at really high ISO it's noisy enough that fixing it will cost you some sharpness and color contrast in the final image, etc - but for me that's a much better trade off than getting an image that is basically completely unusable.

I think most would agree with it. I really don't concern myself with ISO as much as I did when I first started shooting manual.

 

[Tinderbox (UK)]

I saw this video a year a so ago, it` hard to believe is it real.

 

[robbins.photo]

The way i look at it, i would rather a noisy image, i can clean that up to an extent, and if you don't print too big it will not be see, rather than an slow shutter speed and risking motion blur that is virtually unfixable.

John

Hey now! Motion blur is not unfixable. Well, you know, assuming you took another shot at a higher shutter speed of the same thing - lol

I'm with you on this one. High ISO can and does get noisy, and sometimes if it's shot at really high ISO it's noisy enough that fixing it will cost you some sharpness and color contrast in the final image, etc - but for me that's a much better trade off than getting an image that is basically completely unusable.

I think most would agree with it. I really don't concern myself with ISO as much as I did when I first started shooting manual.

I've been pretty impressed at the results the D5100 will deliver even at high ISO. The little bridge camera I had, pretty much any ISO setting over 800 was unusable.

 

[peter27]

I normally only go up to 400 with film. My Sigma DP1 is pretty decent up to 400 and can still deliver quite nice photos at 800. My wife has a Nikon P100 bridge camera and this is very good up to 1600.

 

[glun]

For my Canon MKII, I use ISO 800 max for night shooting. I won't go any further than that because if you zoom in you'll start noticing some noise.

 

[Juga]

For my Canon MKII, I use ISO 800 max for night shooting. I won't go any further than that because if you zoom in you'll start noticing some noise.

If you zoom into most any image far enough you will find some. If you are talking about a 5D II then you should definitely be able to push the ISO more than that.