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Exploring long exposure noise reduction

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Exploring long exposure noise reduction

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Noise is the bane of all digital photographers. If you're seeing those ugly, speckled patterns in your image, you are facing a noise problem. And fortunately, the Mark III is wonderfully low noise, Nevertheless, there are times when you might face some noise troubles, and one of those times is if you are shooting with a shutter speed longer than one second. Long exposure noise reduction, which is here on the third page of my shooting menu, offers an in-camera processing option that can take out noise when you're shooting longer exposures. So I am going to hit Set to go in here into this setting, and by default, it's set to off. Noise reduction will not be applied at all. Auto is going to analyze the image, and see if it's a good candidate for long exposure noise reduction. If it is, it will then process the image. Enable simply forces it to be on all the time. Now, long exposure noise reduction does an amazing job in reducing noise in these longer exposures. There is possibly a catch,…

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