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Kingfisher high iso test

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Posted by Marcel van Duinhov on August 26, 2010 at 4:36 PM
The light conditions brought me the idea to test the high iso of my camera.

Canon EOS 7D
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 700 mm
ISO Speed 3200
Exposure Bias +2/3 EV

Marcel van Duinhoven
Netherlands
Posted by David Kjaer on August 26, 2010 at 5:29 PM
Very nice especially at iso3200 - have you applied any noise reduction to this image?

David :toast:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on August 26, 2010 at 5:29 PM
Lovely shot Marcel

nice wing action :toast:

looks to perform well at high ISO :smile:
Posted by Geoffrey Baker on August 26, 2010 at 5:33 PM
ISO 3200?, crikey, my camera shows more noise than this at ISO 100, that's incredible, I just gotta change my kit :wink:

Oh, brilliant photo too by the way :smile:

Geoff.
Posted by John Robinson on August 26, 2010 at 8:25 PM
That is amazing !
It does show that money talks !
Imagine that iso in the old film days.!
My camera won't go much above 800 so you have 2 stops advantage which is a lot in shutter speed. All this does is make me quite fed up with the fact that I can't afford the gear which would make such a difference to my type of photography or the trips to photo hot spots.
And so as I said at first- Money in the photo world really does talk.
JohnR
Posted by Danielle Nichol on August 27, 2010 at 12:53 AM
Nice shot and subject to test with, but I'm asking the same noise reduction question as David, I ask as the birds breast feathers seam to be smoothed out a bit.

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Posted by Marcel van Duinhov on August 27, 2010 at 1:05 AM
Of course I used noise reduction at ISO 3200, I have done this in Photoshop and lightroom.

greetings
Posted by Dale Sutton on August 27, 2010 at 1:55 AM
Great shot at iso 3200 Marcel but the noise reduction is very evident.

Dale
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on August 27, 2010 at 3:38 AM
Great shot and superb quality Marcel. I never tried a higher ISO than 1000 on my 7D.
But with the new Adobe ACR converter I will make a test soon.
:wavey:
Bertl
Posted by Des Ong on August 27, 2010 at 3:46 AM
Firstly Marcel, a very interesting (in a positive way!) shot. Not sure if it's your intention to discuss noise but if it is, you need to post a 100% crop. At this size it's difficult to make any critical assessment.

Regards,

Des :toast:
Posted by Matt Cole on August 27, 2010 at 4:44 AM
the noise (or lack of it) looks very good at this size, though I suspect the high res version isn't so impressive in terms of noise. A lovely kingfisher shot though, good alert pose and nice soft light.

Matt
Posted by Simon Phillpotts on August 27, 2010 at 6:00 AM
It does look good at this size but I found with the 7D that above iso 800 critical detail was lost which really affected print making. That said, as a web image it looks great and the NR really hasn't had too much of an impact here.