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binary visions wrote:
Auto ISO has a great place in wildlife photography, any many other types of photography as well - it's wonderful when you can lock in a bunch of settings and shoot, but it's not always so easy when you're dealing with wild animals and dynamic lighting. As much as I'd love to tell the subjects where to stand, locking in a shutter speed and aperture is more important to the creative process than locking in an ISO value.
Obviously, where possible, you want to keep the ISO low, but most images become flat-out useless once they've got any motion blur in them so I don't really see any gain in substantially limiting what ISO you're willing to use. A sharp shot at ISO 12,800 is still better than a blurry shot at ISO 1600. There are a lot of fuzzy areas, of course - at a certain point, it may be worth just noting that your shutter speed is going to drop a little and trying to compensate through timing or careful technique. If you're getting blurry pictures, though, there's not much value in that increased DR....Show more →
Agreed 100%. Landscape you have all the time in the world. Same with a lot of studio work. But as soon as you get wild animals and even kids & pets in the mix, it's a muchly appreciated feature. When I had my D300, I'd never consider using it because the shots above 800 were really starting to get grainy. At 6400 it's not even a huge deal unless I'm cropping a lot. I will admit there are purple fringes in the shadows at 6400 but you can just desaturate depending on what else is purple in the image, or change the tint slightly.
If you find you shoot high ISO often, getting a D800 over a D4 or D3S was not a good decision IMO.
When I'm doing B&W conversions, I notice the tones are a lot smoother at 100 than any other time. I'm not sure if it's what the software does or what but there is an appreciable difference above 400.
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