X-T5 at 12,800 ISO

Franco64 wrote:

I have often read that the X-T5 must be used at a maximum of ISO 3,200. In this photo - and in others - I did not pay attention to this precept and, accomplice, I shot out in difficult light and in uncomfortable positions (I was lying on the ground, on the floor of the house, with little light), I went far beyond. This, for example, was done at ISO 12,800.
I know, the noise is clearly visible, but in my opinion in the context of the image it is not at all annoying, indeed it gives the photo a "printing on rough paper" effect that I find pleasant. What do you think?

I used to like having grains in my high ISO shots, too, as the grains provide a focus point for the eyes and increase perceived sharpness, and coming from film myself ...

... until I'm spoiled by nind-denoise, and feel like being a fox that can now reach the grapes. It's still an early prototype, but it's a modern approach that utilizes neural-network/AI at the RAW level. Unlike other AI denoisers that have to deal with variations of different NR algorithms already applied to the image, nind-denoise has the advantage of dealing with noises in their original form (non-denoised RAW) for maximized data and consistency.

https://github.com/trougnouf/nind-denoise

I don't have a live subject so these two will have to do If you share the RAF of your shot, I can feed it through nind-denoise for comparison.

SOOC JPG

non-NR image exported from darktable just before feeding to nind-denoise, which has been trained to recognize these raw noise patterns and replace them with the clean-equivalence.

RAF processed in darktable, passed through nind-denoise, then RL-deblur