Quiz: what camera and ISO

[arash_hazeghi]

I ran into this image and thought do a small experiment for fun, which camera do you think made this image and at what ISO? I have included 5 choices.




Flamingo
Exposure was 1/640 sec at 400mm

[Axel Hildebrandt]

7D at ISO 800? What do you mean by 'I ran into this image'? Did you photograph the flamingo?

[arash_hazeghi]

7D at ISO 800? What do you mean by 'I ran into this image'? Did you photograph the flamingo?

Yes it's mine, I just discovered it while deleting the unwanted files from my backup disk, hadn't noticed it before :D it was taken at a zoo.

[arash_hazeghi]

And the answer is:

20D ISO 3200!

[Marina Scarr]

Wow Arash. I never would have guessed.

[Doug Brown]

How much processing to get it to look like that?

[arash_hazeghi]

No that much, convert with DPP, select BG in PS and apply NR (standard PS NR) then resize to 1024 px and run Guassian blur radius 1.5 on BG, smart sharpen the bird only :)

[Bill McCrystyn]

Getting close is what gets the pics. Enlarging destroys more images than cameras and ISO. This was taken with a 20D at 1/1000 ISO400 f/8. Grant you on the low side ISO but taken at about 20'.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Never would hace guessed Arash, don't think I've ever gone over 1250 with the 40D. It amazes me how little PP you do.

[arash_hazeghi]

Never would hace guessed Arash, don't think I've ever gone over 1250 with the 40D. It amazes me how little PP you do.

20D was actually a bit better in high ISO than 40D, nevertheless with correct exposure and some NR you can get acceptable results.