Tuesday, March 24, 2009

ISO 3200

Camera: E-1
ISO: 3200
Program: Manual
Aperture: f3.4
Shutter: 1/200
Focal length: 158mm

We were outside at dusk and I realised I hadn't taken today's photo - to take the opportunity to explore the noise level the E-1 produces at ISO 3200.
I deliberately underexposed the shot in camera, and then brought the exposure back up around 1.5 stops in Lightroom to accentuate the grain/digital noise. The compression here means it is not so obvious but viewing the full-size version the noise is quite bad!
To see it better, here is a 1:2 crop of the image. The first shows the digital noise/grain out of the camera. The second shows the same image with basic noise reduction applied in Adobe Lightroom.



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