Wildlife at 20,000 iso - give it a try

[Bryan Pereira]

Leopards are amazing to watch when they are looking for prey. I caught this one on the way back to camp around 20 minutes after sunset. I could barely see her without the use of the camera. They are immensely muscular, she moved with her entire body less then an inch from the ground, keeping a low profile. she eventually disappeared into total darkness. Not a great shot but wanted to share as a good demonstration of Nikon low light capability. The upright shot is a little earlier at around 12,000 iso included so you have a better idea of her form

Nikon D810, 380mm f4 1/320 iso 20,000

 

[Donde]

20,000 iso, wow! Who'd a thunk it.

 

[jsecordphoto]

Canon shooters be like....

"Not that impressive"

 

[Hunter58]

I'm impressed. Great capture.

 

[coastalconn]

I was happy I got this at ISO 10000 on the 1D Mark IV. I was actually testing to see how high I could go. Sorry Bryan, I don't think I can hit 20K on the Canons I have, but I did on my D800..
ISO 10000 Canon 1D Mark IV
Cormorant ISO 10000 9_14 by Kristofer Rowe, on Flickr
ISO 25600 D800
Chickadee ISO 25600 by Kristofer Rowe, on Flickr

 

[baturn]

Beautiful! Amazing!

 

[astroNikon]

20k yikes

playing with FF again CoastalConn ?

 

[mnmcote]

Wow... I think I'm gonna give that a try.... Great stuff you guys... Was there a lot of noise reduction needed in post...?

 

[PhotoriousMe]

Nice shots......I need to be willing to up my ISO more I guess.

Dave

 

[coastalconn]

20k yikes

playing with FF again CoastalConn ?

That was from the good ol' days when I shot Nikon. The 1d4 is kind of in between at a 1.3x camera. Not sure what they call it other than APS-H

Wow... I think I'm gonna give that a try.... Great stuff you guys... Was there a lot of noise reduction needed in post...?

They key is ETTR at the higher ISO. If you are underexposed at all forget about it. I always use background NR on almost all of my images...

 

[WesternGuy]

Nice shots Bryan - the second one is my favourite. Technology just continues to give us better and better capabilities. I remember shooting at ISO5000 and 10,000 within a Masai hut in Kenya and boy was I pleasantly surprised at the outcome. I am off to Namibia in about three weeks, so I will have to remember to push the 1D X where necessary.

WesternGuy

 

[Luke345678]

I'm impressed! Some beautiful shots at such a high ISO. Wish I could pull this off with my 70'ds!

 

[ruifo]

My experience above ISO 6400 with the D810 is pretty positive. Here some samples:
High ISO (6400+)

 

[FITBMX]

At 20,000, that's not ISO it's nightvision!!! Cool shot!


Canon EOS-1DX
ISO 100-51200Extension
settable: ISO 50; 102,400 and 204,800

Nikon D4s
ISO 100 – 25,600
Lo-1 (ISO 50) Hi-4 (ISO 409,600)

Both of these are very impressive!
I would love to test both of these myself, so if one of you will send me $13,000 I will buy them both and tell you what I think. So who is going to send me the money???

 

[DarkShadow]

Well if I can get 20,000 on a Pentax K-3 Crop then it shouldn't be a problem on FF.
IMGP7352 by David Kammerer, on Flickr