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Hi: I got a new Nikon D810. Took some test photos with some friends. Seems pretty noisy to me. Not sure I like it. What do you all here think? Hope you can tell with these reduced-size images. These were shot at iso 320 & 500. Will get some tomorrow at 200 and made 1000-ish. Thanks for looking. I also have an 800 and that does not seem noisy. Maybe I'm being hyper-critical and it's fine. Not sure.
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Nope, what you are seeing is clarity/sharpness to the images, and no noise to me, however the images you attached are small, but even then if you go up to 100% on a full res, you probably will 'see something' but images just don't print like that, you are looking at them on a 'pixel level' on a screen, printing them is another thing, but those look great to me. Beautifully sharp.
At those ISO settings they are perfect.
Send me a RAW (the one with couple inside house maybe) and I will have a look.
The one of the couple on the pier, why so high an ISO is my question, and it's an 'odd' ISO (320), Normally I stick to full stop ISO's: 100, 200, 400 800, 1600.
Trev
Re ISO 1/3 or full stops, what Rick said, it used to be a concern and probably is on some models today, just that I've always treated ISO like film, full stops, but once I hit 1600 and needed more it would be 2000/2500 and not just jump up as quick.
Neil showed me a Raw from his D5 at 12,500 and it was brilliant no doubt about that, certainly something I would have no hesitation in going to with that model.