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When extreme high ISO is better than nothing: a rundown on my experiences shooting ballet

Started Jul 5, 2013 | Discussions thread
OP joseluismx Contributing Member • Posts: 673
Re: When extreme high ISO is better than nothing: a rundown on my experiences shooting ballet

Petroglyph wrote:

I think you're shots are pretty good. Have you added a denoiser, such as Topaz, to your LR flow. I use it for any ISO shots with 4 digits or over. I've even used it on 6D shots with ISO 25600 (I'll see if there is one I can post on the forum). With Topaz you can probably get away with 12800 on the K5II (just a guess) but that would give you another stop of shutter and it recovers some detail you'll appreciate. If you decide to go FF choose a Canon 6D (standard ISO range is 100 - 25600) expanded to ISO 102400. They have the 85mm f/1.2 L (pricey) or the excellent 135mm f/2 L (might be perfect for what you're doing). On this cam set the min shutter to 1/320 and forget about it (1/640 for basketball).

Cheers.

I use only Lightroom's noise reduction slider. Haven't tried third party denoisers, yet. I'll give them a shot and see if there's significant improvement.

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