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Exploring high ISO noise reduction

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Exploring high ISO noise reduction

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As you increase ISO on your camera, you buy yourself a lot of exposure latitude, but you also end up increasing the noise in your image. By going here to my third shooting menu, I have something called High ISO speed Noise Reduction, and by default, it is set to a standard setting, which means that at higher ISOs, the camera is going to digitally try to remove some noise before it writes the image out to the card. Standard settings are very good, and as you probably already noticed, this camera works great at high ISOs. You probably won't see much of a change in noise up to ISO 400, or even 800. Starting at 1600, you'll start to see a little bit. If you turn this off, though, or turn it to Low, either one, you'll see a little bit more than you're probably used to now. You can also turn the Noise Reduction up to try to get it to eliminate even more noise. You might ask, well, why wouldn't I just keep it on High all the time? The tradeoff with noise reduction is that you'll see…

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