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Assessing your camera's high ISO capability
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Assessing your camera's high ISO capability
As you should know by now, as you increase ISO, you also increase the amount of noise in your image. This means you can't just necessarily crank the ISO up until you get your shutter speed down to where you want it. If you do, you may end up with an unacceptable amount of ugly noise in your image. Fortunately, these days, most new cameras offer very good noise response. On my SLR, for example, I can go all the way up to ISO 400 with no perceptible increase in noise, and I regularly shoot all the way up to ISO 3200 without worrying about unacceptable noise in my final shots. Beyond that though, I find that my images simply get too grainy and noisy, so I only use ISOs higher than 3200 when I absolutely have no other choice, and I alter my expectations to assume that the images that I get will be compromised by noise. If all I am trying to do is document something then that's not a problem, but if I am going for a high-quality fine-art level of output, then I know that I will probably be…
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Working with exposure parameters in low light1m 13s
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Working with image sensors in low light4m 35s
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Working with shutter speed in low light3m 3s
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Considering motion blur1m 14s
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Working with ISO in low light2m 29s
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Assessing your camera's high ISO capability4m 52s
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Working with in-camera noise reduction2m 4s
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Working with aperture in low light2m 10s
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Understanding dynamic range2m 2s
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Working with color temperature and white balance1m 11s
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Exposing to the right4m 1s
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