6D @ 25,600 ISO, I'm impressed!

Dave Jaseck · Mar 10, 2015

Just a quick test shot of my control center (of my life unfortunately). AWB, W/24 to 105 @ F16 1/100. File is straight off the card, no adjustments. BTW...the 24 to 105 is a impressive lens IMO inspite of what some naysayers here have commented. I remember when I used to shoot weddings with a Rollieflex, fixed 75mm lens, a pocket full of film and an huge strobe with a hunker battery pack. I could shoot a entire wedding with this one camera and lens combo (not about to go there, those days are over). Of course there are situations with a fast prime could give a different effect. Marvelous combination of a camera package for most everything. Though a 70 to 200 wouldn't hurt! You can download original to your computer should you choose to check it out.

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Neez · Mar 10, 2015

While it looks clean, you can see how much detail is lost. The text all looks fuzzy and pixelated on some. I limit my ISO to 6400, and only bump it to 12,800 on specific situations.

Dave Jaseck · Mar 10, 2015

If you viewed the original size on your computer screen, it would be 6 feet wide, so you are catching a segment of the picture on whatever size your screen is from a 6' X 4' photograph at 72ppi. A 30" wide print would be a walk in the park from this camera. BTW...we have not even put it into Photoshop yet, and of course I would never intentionally be shooting at that high ISO unless that was the only option. When I took this shot, I was having an adult beverage, the camera was on the table, I said to myself lets push this baby and took the shoot, one 150 watt bulb in a table lamp. No setup, just point and shoot. The beverage made me do it!

Lawrence Keeney · Mar 10, 2015

I am impressed. The photo looks better once you correct the white balance, but as shows it is great as far as noise is concerned.

I am going to have to try this with my 6D. Prior to seeing this shot, I don't think I would ever even try an ISO setting more than about 5000.

artlmntl · Mar 10, 2015

Neez said:
While it looks clean, you can see how much detail is lost. The text all looks fuzzy and pixelated on some. I limit my ISO to 6400, and only bump it to 12,800 on specific situations.

With the 6D, iso 6400 is the new iso 800 - It's outstanding! I don't hesitate to use iso 8000, though I try to keep under 12800.

At higher isos, I think larger subjects that fill the view work out better than busier scenes. I don't want to crop much, I do want to downsample a bit, and getting the exposure right is much, much more important. At high iso, there is both more noise and less DR from the start. I can see the advantage of brighter-than-f4 lenses - I see both 2.8 zooms and some primes in my future. And none of that negates the need for a decent flash. But the 6D is an excellent camera.

Keith Z Leonard · Mar 10, 2015

You do realize that you are on a forum where pixel peeping is an obsession, right?

Dave Jaseck · Mar 10, 2015

It's starting to dawn on me! I guess the holy grail here is the perfect pixel! I am not of the "perfect out of camera" crowd. Photoshop is my friend!

Keith Z Leonard · Mar 10, 2015

Dave Jaseck said:
It's starting to dawn on me! I guess the holy grail here is the perfect pixel! I am not of the "perfect out of camera" crowd. Photoshop is my friend!

Dave Jaseck · Mar 10, 2015

I had a 20D with 3 nice lenses which I gave to my youngest daughter who wanted to learn photography. Believe it or not, the cam that gave me a lot of my favorites was my Panasonics FZ30 (RIP), now the FZ200 (25mm to 600mm at constant F2.8 Leica Lens, though small sensor). I thought I could live with that. But lust set in for the 6D after I found out I could afford it. I wanted to get back to the feeling I had when I went from medium format to Nikon F with fast lens shooting available light for pure pleasure. Hence the high ISO fascination of the 6D. I have several older White Lightening lights and had a bunch of Vivitar external flashes (one working now). I just want to be free with a great lens and shoot what interest me for fun and games. A lot of the photographs are in a couple of shows I did featuring ME...ego thing. Shows were just a vehicle to show some favorite personal stuff. If you care to watch them, turn your sound on and watch in full screen as they are in HD.

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rebel99 · Mar 10, 2015

that is impressive, Dave! looks like ISO 400 if you hadn't said anything ;-)

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ppires85 · Mar 10, 2015

Keith Z Leonard said:
You do realize that you are on a forum where pixel peeping is an obsession, right?

I did some event photography for my first time ever a couple of days ago. I feel really sorry for my unnecessary pixel peeping nature... After a couple of shots I realized that if I kept a low iso, I would never nail my shots as I should. After that I did a lot better and now there's a happy client. Still realized I should be learning a lot of other stuff.

artlmntl · Mar 10, 2015

Dave Jaseck said:
It's starting to dawn on me! I guess the holy grail here is the perfect pixel! I am not of the "perfect out of camera" crowd. Photoshop is my friend!

I'm looking for properly exposed out of the camera with enough shutter speed to make the shot look right. I don't pixel-peep much at all any more - no time for that! But I think better per-pixel performance in the image results in better looking finished image. Even with the best PP technologies, it's quicker and easier to finish up when the shot is right and looks as good as it can out of the camera.

artlmntl · Mar 10, 2015

Keith Z Leonard said:
Dave Jaseck said:

It's starting to dawn on me! I guess the holy grail here is the perfect pixel! I am not of the "perfect out of camera" crowd. Photoshop is my friend!

Click to expand...

Keith Z Leonard · Mar 10, 2015

ppires85 said:
Keith Z Leonard said:

You do realize that you are on a forum where pixel peeping is an obsession, right?

Click to expand...

I did some event photography for my first time ever a couple of days ago. I feel really sorry for my unnecessary pixel peeping nature... After a couple of shots I realized that if I kept a low iso, I would never nail my shots as I should. After that I did a lot better and now there's a happy client. Still realized I should be learning a lot of other stuff.

The key for events is to know the purpose of the photograph, I think. Of course strive for the best possible output, but shooting for albums is quite forgiving, really, and an impact fulled photograph of slightly less than technical perfection works just fine.

Now shooting for posters needs more setup, work, and I really enjoy that personally, but too often here people pretend like they only care about those perfect exposures with perfect focus, etc...

ASR45 · Mar 11, 2015

Very good, the 6D is a good camera at high ISO, compared to others.

ppires85 · Mar 11, 2015

Keith Z Leonard said:
ppires85 said:

Keith Z Leonard said:

You do realize that you are on a forum where pixel peeping is an obsession, right?

Click to expand...

I did some event photography for my first time ever a couple of days ago. I feel really sorry for my unnecessary pixel peeping nature... After a couple of shots I realized that if I kept a low iso, I would never nail my shots as I should. After that I did a lot better and now there's a happy client. Still realized I should be learning a lot of other stuff.

Click to expand...

The key for events is to know the purpose of the photograph, I think. Of course strive for the best possible output, but shooting for albums is quite forgiving, really, and an impact fulled photograph of slightly less than technical perfection works just fine.

Now shooting for posters needs more setup, work, and I really enjoy that personally, but too often here people pretend like they only care about those perfect exposures with perfect focus, etc...

That's absolutely right. I consider myself guilty. Print type has a major role in that. And it is even more forgiving if we think about social media / Internet publications.

irm · Mar 11, 2015

I reads some of the comments and I don't think the people commenting are aware that most controllers has indistinct writing. I did open the shot up to original size and it looks very good.

To me having used my 6D in real lowlight situations it was either a noisy photo to remember the trip or no photo.

5am train trip in Switzerland looking at the Matterhorn.

Khazaad · Mar 12, 2015

Dave Jaseck said:
It's starting to dawn on me! I guess the holy grail here is the perfect pixel! I am not of the "perfect out of camera" crowd. Photoshop is my friend!

artlmntl · Mar 12, 2015

irm said:
I reads some of the comments and I don't think the people commenting are aware that most controllers has indistinct writing. I did open the shot up to original size and it looks very good.

It looks good, but it's not a great test of lowlight capability. The OP throttled the aperture to F16 rather than shooting in actual low light. Also, he took a 20mp shot and he reduced it to web size.

irm said:
To me having used my 6D in real lowlight situations it was either a noisy photo to remember the trip or no photo.

irm said:
5am train trip in Switzerland looking at the Matterhorn.

Under those conditions, it's not really surprising. As a smaller print, it should look grainy but okay.

Dave Jaseck · Mar 12, 2015

Light was a single 150 watt bulb in a lamp with a shade. Would make a small grainy print...are you serious? Here is the original full size file you can download and view on your computer.

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6D @ 25,600 ISO, I'm impressed!

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