dont forget poor nikon, how about the d90 or d300?


e/ omg that nikon d300 has 51 point af

This post was edited by doyleo on Dec 15 2008 10:53am

Well I have read that high ISO performance on those Rebel series of cameras are quite poor which is one of the reasons why I ruled out those even though they are a lot cheaper than the 40D and 50D. I don't think that I have ever seen any pics taken at ISO 1600 with XTI or XSI but I am curious on how bad the noise is. Do you think you can post a photo taken at iso 1600 in here? I hope I am not asking for too much again lol. I am sure it can be annoying sometimes to bring a tripod with you everywhere even though most of the time taking night photos require a tripod to make the results a lot more interesting and dramatic. I doubt you can do anything with in-camera settings to reduce noise level whole a lot even though some of the higher end cameras have noise reduction function but I am not sure and don't really think your XTI can do that.



I already have a canon lens so nn to spend even more to get a Nikon plus a new lens besides this thread is about Canon 40D and 50D


This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 15 2008 10:59am

XSi @ ISO 800



Don't have any 1600 at the moment, sorry!

Yeah, 800 ISO works fine on my camera too, but when you hit 1600, YIKES. I will get a pic of this later lol.

Yeah I am sure all of those newer DSLRs can handle up to ISO 800 pretty well but from time to time you still need to go a bit higher than that like when you want to take pics of animals in low light or action photos. Well I know you don't like to post process your photos too much but if you ever change your mind about that there are tools or plugins to reduce or even remove image noises for Photoshop. I have tried it a few times and it works quite good except some details could vanish too.

800 will look horrible if the pic has much underexposed spots, well exposed even 1600 will look ok

Once again, I don't use photoshop to reduce the "noise" my camera makes. I'd rather take the picture without the noise

I'll agree to disagree on this one.



Of all the times I've used 1600 ISO it's been terrible.... is there something I'm doing wrong? I mean, it looks terrible noise wise.

This post was edited by chantal7 on Dec 16 2008 10:58am

We tested mates 350d vs my 400d when i had it and took this shot with 1600iso. Used only cameras own noise remove



This post was edited by Antichrist- on Dec 16 2008 04:02pm

That was suprisingly good O__O"

yep, but look at that dark area, pic will look nasty if its mostly that dark, like it quite often is when you need that high iso.