D3S - What I think about the High ISO

[Lance Peters]

Just a fun shot last night setting up the D3S - shot in Raw, Straight conversion
No Sharpening, No Noise reduction - NO NOTHING.
Deliberately under exposed.


10,000 ISO
D3S
Nikon 24-70 F2.8
F10
1/60th

a little noise reduction and its pretty sweet - IMHO. In fact I think its better than 6400 out of the D3.

What say ye???

[Jeff Cashdollar]

You got his attention - pretty good almost SoC :)

[arash_hazeghi]

Is this with capture or ACR?
The statue is amazed at high ISO capabilities of D3S as well :D

[Lance Peters]

Is this with capture or ACR?
The statue is amazed at high ISO capabilities of D3S as well :D

Capture NX - straight conversion - NO Adjustments at all :)

[wendell westfall]

Wow! And I have NR problems with ISO400 . . . think I'm ready for a new camera.

[Lance Peters]

Cant wait to get this baby back up into the rainforests in far north queensland again this year :)
Roll on October :)

[Gus Cobos]

This is ISO WHAT??? Did you say 10,000? :eek: Well; you know what that mean Mr. Peters...It means time to sell my D3 and step up to THE DARK LORD D3s...:D:D:D Love the image too...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

This is ISO WHAT??? Did you say 10,000? :eek: Well; you know what that mean Mr. Peters...It means time to sell my D3 and step up to THE DARK LORD D3s...:D:D:D Love the image too...:cool:

:) ISO 10,000 :)

[Oscar Zangroniz]

This is ISO WHAT??? Did you say 10,000? :eek: Well; you know what that mean Mr. Peters...It means time to sell my D3 and step up to THE DARK LORD D3s...:D:D:D Love the image too...:cool:




Yes Gus, we know what it means for a few of us, time to load up the credit card. Thank God I didn't spend too much on Christmas.

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Guess I need to order mine real somm my friend. Looks awesome Lance.:D

[david cramer]

Thanks a lot, Lance (:()! Couldn't you add some noise in PS so I don't melt my credit card?

[Morkel Erasmus]

eish!!! (South African slang for- D@MN!!!)
and I was about to move over to the D300s...gotta save up some more dough...:eek:
impressive.

do you mind posting the image straight-out-of-camera with no NR applied?

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Sure looks very good Lance, you are making me very jealous :D
If you can post an example of ISO12800 that would be great too. Couldn't wait to see you taken bird pictures with D3S as well.

[Benjamin Kennedy]

Seconding Morkel's request, would you post the pre- noise reduction version? And maybe some 100% crops so we can compare? It is tough to see noise at this size sometimes. I do like the facial expression :-)

[Lance Peters]

eish!!! (South African slang for- D@MN!!!)
and I was about to move over to the D300s...gotta save up some more dough...:eek:
impressive.

do you mind posting the image straight-out-of-camera with no NR applied?

I must not have been clear.

THIS IS STRAIGHT OUT OF CAMERA - NO NOISE REDUCTION.

(I was saying if you were to add a little NR it would be sweet)

[david cramer]

If you read Lance's post, he states clearly this shot is without NR. Even more impressive that it is underexposed.

He later suggests a little NR and it's ready to go.

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OPPS, I see you've already responded, Lance.

[Morkel Erasmus]

sorry, my bad, my eye caught the 'a little noise reduction' :o

very impressive to say the least. is 108,000 any useful or just a gimmick? would also love to see the 12,800 examples and maybe a close-up snippet of this shot...?

[john j. henderson]

Can you ship me one tomorrow, Florida, USA; kidding, will wait for them to be in stores here in USA

[Lance Peters]

sorry, my bad, my eye caught the 'a little noise reduction' :o

very impressive to say the least. is 108,000 any useful or just a gimmick? would also love to see the 12,800 examples and maybe a close-up snippet of this shot...?

100% crop - THis is at least 1 stop under exposed as well.
Dont have any 12,800 as yet - I am away from home - once I get back I will do some shots at all ISO'S and post so you can see.

[Lance Peters]

sorry, my bad, my eye caught the 'a little noise reduction' :o

very impressive to say the least. is 108,000 any useful or just a gimmick? would also love to see the 12,800 examples and maybe a close-up snippet of this shot...?

Have not tried the 104,200 ISO as yet - I would expect it to be pretty noisey and a bit of a gimmick - I guess it depends on what you want to do with the resulting picture - probably not much good for enlarging and printing - but at that ISO you are going to shoot in near darkness - so guess if you wanted a record of something it might be useful.
The super sensitive movie mode could also be interesting.

[Desmond Chan]

Lance, by "under-exposed" do you mean you applied -1 EV (in AV auto mode) so that the statute would look closer to it is when seen with the naked eyes?

Impressive ISO 10,000 performance. Too bad I just got the D700, I guess I have to wait for the D4.:)



Just a fun shot last night setting up the D3S - shot in Raw, Straight conversion
No Sharpening, No Noise reduction - NO NOTHING.
Deliberately under exposed.


10,000 ISO
D3S
Nikon 24-70 F2.8
F10
1/60th

a little noise reduction and its pretty sweet - IMHO. In fact I think its better than 6400 out of the D3.

What say ye???

[Alfred Forns]

No words, just impressed !!!!

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks for the close-up view! that is impressive especially in the light (pun intended :)) of the underexposure!
:eek: