Wedding photography and sports both benefit from high ISO settings. I do wedding photography, and if I could afford it I'd already own a pair of 5D IIs because there are many situations where fast primes aren't adequate alone, and ISO 1600-3200 are just too noisy on my 40D and 20D cameras to be usable 99% of the time. With those huge 21mp files or sRAW I could push it to ISO6400 and still get printable images, and I would work much more frequently at ISO1600 or ISO3200.
Sports, Sports and more Sports that's why I'm drooling for a D700. Been pushing the D80 to 2,500 +4 EV and it just don't cut it. Have a safe & happy New Year.
a must for low (no) light shooting in recording studios / nightclubs with stage lighting that make school gyms seem like daylight / nighttime street & architectural
I do wish they would pay some attention to the other end of the ISO range but I use high ISO enough to be interested in it as a feature as I upgrade. Would love some good ISO25 sometimes as well though - Yeah.... It's my cake and if I want it and eat it too then I can okay :-)
ISO 3200 on my 5D is very essential to nighttime street photography. Shooting with my 35mm f/2 prime... 3200 helps me get a faster shutter speed when its almost pitch black.
Is there really a High-ISO trend? Or is it more of a digital noise reduction trend, that makes pictures look a bit like paintings instead?
I welcome a High-ISO trend among the smaller and lighter bodies. I avoid ISO 800 on my 400D. (And the 450D has allegedly the same performance! sigh.)
I occasionally go up to 1600 but only because I much prefer available-light photography. Nothing against flash, but out in the big wide open a single flash is often no good anyway and for street scenes flash is just too intrusive.
Plus, some grain is sometimes a nice addition to an image, especially B&W.
ShaneEngelking wrote:
For the Bball and Vball that i shoot, 1600 is a decidedly LOW ISO
High school gyms maybe? I shoot in very well lit college gyms so 1600 is pretty much as high as I need to go to get 1/500-1/640 exposures.
Dark, no flash allowed churches require ISO 3200 at f2.8 to get decent shutter speeds enough for my 70-200 2.8, so yes, in some situations it is a requirement.
Birds. The best light happens when the sun is almost down. I struggle to keep 1/200th at f/5.6 on a 500 + 1.4x tc all the time. I shoot at 1600 regularly, and I'm looking forward to exercising my 5D2's 3200-6400
Also, I've taken a number of landscapes requiring iso 1600 (shooting at f/8-f/16) to freeze action like snow and water for dramatic effect.
Lotusm50 wrote:
Yes. Exactly. It really annoys me when on some DLSR's there are no speeds below 200 or 160 ISO. 50 ISO, or perhaps even 25 ISO, as you suggest, should be seen as essential.
My Kodak SLR/n (same for SLR/c) goes down to 6 ISO and produces stunning images at that speed.
They make ND filters, bu they don't make light intensifying filters...
