Too late to hunt.@ ISO16000

[Marc Mol]

It was now 6.40pm and getting so dark that even the Cheetah bros trio had given up on this herd of gnu. They had tried unsuccessfully for the last 1 1/2 hours.
Without the D3s I wouldn't have stood a chance of capturing anything at all, taken @16000ISO with only one round of selective NR.

D3s 500VR 1/80s ISO16000@f/4. Masai Mara Oct 2010

C & C most welcome

Cheers
Marc

[Hilary Hann]

Impressive performance at ISO 16000!! Well processed Marc, you've turned a difficult situation into a nice image, well done.

[Robert Amoruso]

I know that you where working against the upper extreme of exposure Marc in the low light and the camera did stet at that ISO, but I would have preferred to have more depth of field to better portray the stalking of the cat and it's prey.

The OOF hill at right is also distracting.

[Morkel Erasmus]

works well to show the capabilities of that beast of a camera Marc! I have to agree with Robert that compositionally this doesn't really work for me I'm afraid.

[Marc Mol]

Thanks Robert & Morkel, I agree that from a composition point of view it doesn't offer much, I should have stated it was merely to indicate what can still be achieved at this level of ISO.

[Morkel Erasmus]

I should have stated it was merely to indicate what can still be achieved at this level of ISO.

I thought as much, Marc, but didn't want to put words in your mouth

From my limited experience with the D3s I would not hesitate to shoot on ISO-3200 safely and get high-res-printable results, and will go to ISO-6400 if light gets worse.