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@ Makten,
Yup, it surprises me just how much my light meter dips just during over-cast days. And overcast is some of the very best lighting! So if 400 is the limit then wide open plus VR, AS, or whatever ya call it, is in order - unless they're going for that slurry camera-shake look.
@ All,
They don't refer to that one hour just before the Sun sets as "Golden Hour" for nothing. What then? Only tripodders need apply? Nah, ISO 400 (even 800) barely makes a difference. ISO 1,600 is a step in the right amount but of course like all good things - I want more. ISO 6,400 is more like it... 12,800... Okay, now we're talking! But I guess it will be a few years before anything but the most expensive DSLRs have an acceptable 12,800 image able to really be used in all situations - like where high detail scene resolving is wanted.
And then of course there are natural lighting macro attempts where no amount of DOF seems to be enough, always seem to occur in the shade, and always seem to need yet more cropping. Thank the camera gods for the ISO performance and the NR apps we have so far! Lemme show ya what I mean (cool! more excuses to post images! ):
F/5.6, 1/500s, ISO 1250, Massive Crop
Hiding noise the old fashion way: B&W conversion!
Still, F/8 or 11 at 1/2000 would have been preferable!
I wanted the fly OOF and the shadow in focus but not this much.
F/4.0, 1/1250s, ISO 1250, Massive Crop
I used some NR on this but didn't spend the time needed. Mostly because it wasn't deep enough to begin with.
Really F/16 or 22 at ISO 6400 would have been so much nicer - but these were less than 2mm long babies and
I shake too much for a slower SS and the noise from 6400 probably would have munched the detail even more.
f/8, 1/200s, ISO 1250, Massive Crop
No NR used besides ACR defaults. Of course f/16 or 22 at 1/2000 would have been easier on the back with
less forehead sweat too. Still not too bad considering it's a pretty massive crop. I'm glad the GH2 is lots
better than the GH1 - which probably would have recorded a fairly unusable image here with these settings.
F/4.0, 1/1000s, ISO 1250, Massive Crop
Using selective NR here. The results were much better before I had to add post exposure compensation
which brought out all the ugly noise. I'm glad the GH2 doesn't suck too bad at this ISO but I want more.
It took me about 4 clicks to get one in frame without motion blur. This is also fairly heavily cropped.
F/5.6, 1/320s, ISO 1250, Uncropped
Results are better when the whole frame is used (and scaled to web size) of course.
Not too bad for ISO 1250. Very little NR was needed here. I wanted a much deeper
shot but given the available light there was just no way without adding way too much
sensor noise. I'm glad for the low noise of the GH2 but who shooting this scene would
not want more? Oh, say, about ten stops more! Of course everyone! Saying anything
else only means you're being silly, not thinking, or don't use your camera very much.
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