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Low-light city landscape photo problems

Started Feb 11, 2020 | Photos thread
Jerry-astro
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Re: Low-light city landscape photo problems
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Aristide Rutilant wrote:

Your feelings about this may obviously vary, but the bottom line is that you should let ISO going all the way to 12800 if necessary and not worry too much about quality loss.

My own feelings would vary considerably if I were planning to print large.  If you believe that the noise generated at ISO 6400-12800 is essentially invisible in a large print (particularly one with fine detail), then my first reaction would be “show me” since my own experience is not consistent with that.  I would agree that printing can be quite forgiving of noise and obsessing over it (as many do) is unnecessary.  However, in fairly sizable enlargements, the noise can be more visible and impact fine detail.  Not everyone views larger prints at a considerable distance.  In spite of your recommendations here, I would heartily recommend that people who are planning to print large should do a smaller crop of a section of the print at the same resolution as the final version and test the visibility of the noise before simply following your advice to ignore the issue.

JMHO.

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