rainer viertlboeck
Senior Member
the only two things i want to add, cause everything is said by other users is.... that you have to select carefull your lenses. many will not work, but you will find finally some which are fine for the 14n.
the noise problems have two faces in my opinion.
1. as other stating no problem till 160iso and with iso 6-25.
2. the higher isos are fine if you just use the camera with 6mp raw resolution. this reduce the noise about more than the half.
i measured the noise level with noise ninja, in daylight the camera works fine till 800asa in raw mode 6mp !!!. it is even comparable with the fuji s2,- which is the best lo light camera at the moment. but the things change drastically if the kelvin temperature lowers to 4000 kelvin or under. than the blue channel becomes crazy and creates unusuable noise levels......
the price ( including the 1000$ rabate kodak gave the last months) is a great value for the money. buy the 14n and a lologht camera as the S2 and you have a great and affortable digital setup, including a backup camera which is a good thing for profs.
Problems:
kodak should look more carefull to the quality of the cameras. many arrive broken or with malfunctions. this seem to continue with the new SLR/n and their faulty sensors which produce color shifts.
the noise problems have two faces in my opinion.
1. as other stating no problem till 160iso and with iso 6-25.
2. the higher isos are fine if you just use the camera with 6mp raw resolution. this reduce the noise about more than the half.
i measured the noise level with noise ninja, in daylight the camera works fine till 800asa in raw mode 6mp !!!. it is even comparable with the fuji s2,- which is the best lo light camera at the moment. but the things change drastically if the kelvin temperature lowers to 4000 kelvin or under. than the blue channel becomes crazy and creates unusuable noise levels......
the price ( including the 1000$ rabate kodak gave the last months) is a great value for the money. buy the 14n and a lologht camera as the S2 and you have a great and affortable digital setup, including a backup camera which is a good thing for profs.
Problems:
kodak should look more carefull to the quality of the cameras. many arrive broken or with malfunctions. this seem to continue with the new SLR/n and their faulty sensors which produce color shifts.