RoamingScott wrote:
I can see the banding, though the color noise portion has been dealt with 🤷🏼♂️
ahinesdesign wrote: RoamingScott wrote: ahinesdesign wrote:
I go to 25,600 on my Z9. Out of the camera, raw images above 6400 can be rather noisy, but a small amount of Lightroom’s denoise feature (25 is usually plenty) and some even-handed editing* high ISO images look great. Not ISO 64 great, but great for slow lens and/or low light images that would otherwise be very noisy.
*You can’t raise an ISO 25600 image by 4 or 5 stops without serious consequences, but I’m not sure you can do that with any camera…
It's always helpful if you can show an example of something like this. I have never had a 25,600 image that didn't have insane banding on the Z9.
Here you go (Z9 + 180–600mm, ISO 25600). I don't see any banding in my high ISO images, but a heavier hand with denoise would make it smoother at the expense of fine detail.
I see obvious banding in the shirt. Strangely enough it follows the shapes of her body.
Nowhere else in the image. Perhaps you could educate us and point out exactly where you see banding, a sample would be great.
And I have also never seen any banding in my Z9 high ISO images processed normally. It may be possible to generate some by lifting shadows a lot, but I am generally able to expose my images well.
Cheers,
Bernard
Aug 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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