My dog at ISO 6400

I had been shooting a bluebird at my bird feeder with my Sony A6600 and 70-350mm f/4.5-6.3 lens when I turned around to see my goldendoodle, Holly, in a nice pose on the living room sofa. I had never used that camera/lens combination in dim light before and decided to take a chance using 1/60 second (which is the slowest that I desired to shoot) wide open at f/4.5 with auto ISO (which turned out to be ISO 6400)

IMAGE LINK: https://photos.smugmug​.com …rcut_2227-X2.jpg&lb=1&s=A

A sharp image (without camera shake) at high ISO is far better than trying to capture the same image at a lower ISO.

ISO has gotten SO much better over the years. Between improvements in technology and noise reduction in post-processing, there just isn't the justification to fear ISO like there used to be. Even after calling out the ISO setting, the image above doesn't show any such problems!