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Nx300- how to improve low light performance?

Started Jan 14, 2014 | Questions thread
nster Regular Member • Posts: 114
Re: Nx300- how to improve low light performance?

First rule is shooting in RAW, it makes a world of difference when dealing with noise

Secondly, if the subject is mostly static, consider manually focusing or using the manual focus assist thingy where it automatically focuses when you're at half shutter and you can fine tune it manually.

Third, you may have to shoot slightly under-exposed, try Aperture priority to the most open aperture (lowest f number) and set exposure slightly under 0 and use Lightroom to adjust the exposure later. Using such an open aperture will give you very small depth of field making it important to get the focus just right

The 30mm f2 would definitively help, the 45mm f1.8 would be good too. I use the SEF20a flash and put a white elastic diffuser thing and bounce it off the wall or ceiling but I can understand not wanting to do that. For ideal low-light performance obviously a Full Frame DSLR with good ISO control and a fast FF lens would destroy the samsung NX series like a Nikon D600 or something or even a APS-C DSLR like the D5300 or wtv should work much better at higher ISOs.

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