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Jack Kelley wrote:
Thanks, Brian. Are you having to do much noise reduction, either whole-frame or localized, at 1600? Maybe I need to revisit my technique. Where I've run into too much noise for my taste has been when I jump instantly to a preset high shutter speed and shallow DOF, but do have time to adjust ISO and instead rely on Auto ISO, i.e., action I'd miss if I fiddled with ISO. Like you, I am hopeful about the Mark II and have signed up for availability notification. Fingers crossed.
Depending on the image I do need noise reduction, I've started using NIK Dfine 2 from LRCC (which I use for >95% of my work). Using the adjustment brush in LR can also be a useful tool for reducing local noise
I'm the same as you in getting greatest noise when jumping to situations of poor light and not having time to set the camera to cope best with the conditions. Trying to recover under-exposed images at high ISO is something I've more or less given up on as I find the noise levels unacceptable or the image becomes to "smeary" if I push noise reduction too far
For interest, a quick test shot at ISO1600, checking out a cheap used copy of the 14-150mk2 I picked up yesterday, jpg straight from camera, Noise Reduction = off, Noise Filter = Standard
P9281275 by Brian Wadie Photographer, on Flickr
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