brett maxwell wrote:
that's pretty awful, especially considering high ISOs always look better with lots of light, and 1/8000, f3.5, iso25k is quite a bit of light.
of course no one should expect this to be a great high ISO camera.
You know, I actually thought it looked pretty good for ISO 25,000. It looks a lot better than my D700 could ever hope to produce. I am still under the impression the D800 high ISO will blow, but maybe it will actually be a slight upgrade from the D700.
Why would anyone shoot in light like that with those parameters? To ruin the picture on purpose?
With 1/8000 at f/3.5 that's approximately 11 stops brighter than a typical high ISO situation, like 1/35th at f/1.4. So it isn't a high ISO example at all, or at least not a useful or indicative one. If the lack of real low light, high ISO examples continues, and the omission is systematic, then maybe photographers will have to conclude the D800 is pretty much a flash-only body. A studio camera.
