High ISO Noise on D60?

[Adam T]

I will soon be doing some indoor sports shooting, I guess I should use a High ISO. I have a D60, but the ISO only goes up to a 1000 and I'm not sure how noisy it is up there, does anyone have any experience on shooting at those sort of ISOs and can give me some feedback?

[tsaros]

Wht not just turn the camera on a shoot a few shoots to see?

[shrugs*]

Definately stick to RAW. Your end images will be a lot more processing-friendly.

Here's an example from my D30 at ISO1600. Not the greatest example, but you get the idea of a low-light situation. Noise reduction software typically does a pretty decent job.

If your lens is fast enough, I'd absolutely try to stick to ISO800. After that working with the noise is more work.

[kfong]

IMHO, a D60 is really noisy at ISO 800 and 1000. It's like using a ASA200 slide film and push-developed to ASA800.
If it's not for post processing with Neatimage etc it is not useable at these ISO's.

Ken

I will soon be doing some indoor sports shooting, I guess I should use a High ISO. I have a D60, but the ISO only goes up to a 1000 and I'm not sure how noisy it is up there, does anyone have any experience on shooting at those sort of ISOs and can give me some feedback?

[Brodog2525]

Wht not just turn the camera on a shoot a few shoots to see?

^^^

[Adam T]

Because I am new to this game, I do not know how much noise is deemed as acceptable and so on.

I have no idea how to shoot in RAW, nor how to process etc, should I start learning?

[ScottE]

I have a D60 and try to keep ISO a 400 or lower. Noise is quite noticeable at 800 and 1000 is for emergency use only.

With my 20D I find that ISO 800 is about the same as 400 on the D60.