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These are some pictures I took with my new D700, coupled with a 85mm 1.4.

Most pictures were taken at 6400iso at 1.4. The only available light came from behind the musicians, so I tried to play with it a bit!

Focus was hard to nail, especially with a backlit moving subject...

At first I thought that there was still a lot of noise, but then I compared these images with the ones I had taken with a D80 (elsewhere on my site), and I felt better!

Comments are welcome!

http://philippegratton.com/p968849879/h4732bac#h4732bac

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Very good! The noise isn't bad at all. I wouldn't worry much unless your planning on making huge prints out of these. I really like the colors, this was on auto white balance? or did you preset these?

I've ran into some goofy lighting in the past; it sure is a really big challenge to get it all composed.
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I am not sure what sort of shutter speed you are getting, but ISO 3200 and 1 stop under can give you a less noisy shoot [and less blown highlight too on shoot #7]

Regardless, fantastic shots !
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PinHeadPhotography said:
Very good! The noise isn't bad at all. I wouldn't worry much unless your planning on making huge prints out of these. I really like the colors, this was on auto white balance? or did you preset these?
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Thanks a lot! The white balance was set on "auto", but I did have to PP the images a bit in NX2, mainly to add soem sharpness to the eyes, and correct some skins

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B18 said:
I am not sure what sort of shutter speed you are getting, but ISO 3200 and 1 stop under can give you a less noisy shoot [and less blown highlight too on shoot #7]
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Thanks for the comment. Yeah, on the 7th shot I could have lowered the iso and/or increased the shutter speed. I was on centered meetering, so I guess it's the black shirt that induced the overexposure. Elsewhere, the shutter speed was at the lowest I could hand hold. I had only a few sharp images that night...

Philippe

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RVO said:
I did use my D700 at 6400 but never did get such low noise images, what were your in-camera settings? Did you use noise reduction software?
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The camera is set on "standard" but I shoot everything RAW and do my PP in NX2. I did not aply any noise reduction other than the "nornal" in-camera noise reduction, which NX2 applies to the jpeg at the conversion. Well, sometimes I do apply some slight localized noise reduction on faces (excluding the eyes), using NX2's U-Points selection tools.

I've heard that the amount of noise can have something to do with the color of the light source (a camera would produce more noise under a bluer source, I think, but you might want to do a search on this, and compare with your own images)

Philippe

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lecastor said:
These are some pictures I took with my new D700, coupled with a 85mm 1.4.

Most pictures were taken at 6400iso at 1.4. The only available light came from behind the musicians, so I tried to play with it a bit!
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Good idea! I think it worked out really well for the shots of the keyboard player! The second one of him is great, the composition, the exposure - well done!

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I like those pics a lot - great work! The noise does not look to shabby, i think you don't have to worry too much about it...

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lecastor said:
thomas1973 said:
Good idea! I think it worked out really well for the shots of the keyboard player! The second one of him is great, the composition, the exposure - well done!
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Thanks Thomas! To tell the truth, using this combo wasn't much of an idea: it's the only lens I own, for now!
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Ah, I'm sorry I was being unclear. I wasn't referring to the lens combo, but your adaption to the scene. That instead of trying to force properly exposed subjects in a lowlight/backlit environment, you went with the flow. Adapting to the situation. Good idea! :-)

Oh, and owning only one prime and the D700 is actually also a good idea, I think. I don't know what you've used before, but I found it both challenging and liberating to go back to one cam, one lens combo. I used only the D700 and the Nikon 50 f/1.4 D for a while, and it is still often my go-to combination.

Thomas.
 
Ahhh, good! How are you liking your D700? I currently own 2 D3's and I kind of want to get a D700 to play around with. The D3's are big in size, but for family gatherings and hanging out with friends; I'm seeing the D700 being much more mobile.
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PinHeadPhotography said:
Ahhh, good! How are you liking your D700? I currently own 2 D3's and I kind of want to get a D700 to play around with. The D3's are big in size, but for family gatherings and hanging out with friends; I'm seeing the D700 being much more mobile.
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So far I really love it, for its IQ and really low noise. But eventhough it's smaller than a D3, I wouldn't say it's a small camera... And I'm not sure the small advantage in weight and bulk justifies another 2500$...

My previous camera were FM2, F3hp, and later D80 and D90. The last one could still be called "small", while the D700...

But if you wanna keep all your FF lenses, the D700 is currently the only "small" option. I not I would suggest you discover the true pleasure of walking around with a D90/16-85VR as a family activity photo combo. The quality I've had with that combo was far better than what I could get with even my 17-35mm 2.8 Nikkor. And whatever people say, the video can be nice for family activities!

Cheers,

Phil

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