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12,800 ISO on X-T100 — what is this sorcery?

Started Aug 16, 2020 | Photos thread
Erik Baumgartner Senior Member • Posts: 6,893
Re: 12,800 ISO on X-T100 — what is this sorcery?
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KneeConWon wrote:

Taken with a Fuji X-T100 and Fuji 15-45mm kit lens at 12,800 ISO and 1/7 second handheld during dusk.

Image was taken in JPG with noise reduction and sharpening each set to minus 2 (the lowest setting on the camera). The only edit made in post was raising the brightness slightly (which obviously only increases noise).

I can't see any color noise, and I can only see "grain" if I zoom in to 100%. And the image appears sharp and vibrant at any normal viewing sizes.

How the heck is Fuji doing this? I'm pretty dang impressed — not only with the iso performance, but with the in-lens stabilization, and with the X-T100 + 15-45mm lens combination in general. It's so great that I haven't needed any other lenses for the system. It's effectively my perfect everyday fixed-lens compact camera that can take good photos of almost anything. I love its simplicity and versatility.

If the quality of light is halfway decent, ISO 12800 is usually very usable with a modern APS-C camera. With a little additional NR and a quick tweak it looks even cleaner. That 15-45 is a good little lens. Not super sharp here, but hey, it's at 1/8". My 16-55 would likely look significantly worse. at 1/8"

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