In camera noise reduction when shooting jpg

I have a shoot tomorrow night which I'll be using my 5D Mark III in. The task is to shoot winners of awards whilst they are holding their awards. Nothing too strenuous. However, I won't be post processing, I'll just be handing over the memory card to the client.

Would you recommend using in camera noise reduction for this situation. I expect I'll be using iso of around 2000 (maybe not but can't be sure at this moment). These pictures might be printed to a magazine and will be posted online. I'm concerned about them being too soft, caused by the in camera noise reduction.

You are handing over your memory card and not even having a chance to look at or edit your own work before your name possibly goes on it in a magazine? Ewwww. I would have turned the job down. But yeah, I would use noise reduction in the low range. Shoot at ISO 1250, 2500, or 5000 and not those in between and ETTR.

Thanks, it's not ideal but it doesn't bother me that much.

Why not iso levels in between those?

fitshaced wrote in post #14941106
Thanks, it's not ideal but it doesn't bother me that much.

Why not iso levels in between those?

http://www.petapixel.c​om …when-shooting-dslr-video/
It talks about video but it's the same for still. It's just the first link I could find. You can dig up a lot more detail about shooting ISO multiples of 160 if you're really interested.

Ah simulated iso. Good to know.

I believe Kfreels is correct about the ISO settings, but I can't remember the exact reason.

What I do know to be pretty much true is the ETTR bit. It seems to work out better to give a higher ISO and fully expose the shots at that ISO (histogram towards the right) than to try and use a lower ISO and under expose, or crowd the histogram to the left. That seems to be a sure fire way of creating noise.
Don't shove it over so far that you blow your highlights though!

Ricardo222 wrote in post #14941122
I believe Kfreels is correct about the ISO settings, but I can't remember the exact reason.

What I do know to be pretty much true is the ETTR bit. It seems to work out better to give a higher ISO and fully expose the shots at that ISO (histogram towards the right) than to try and use a lower ISO and under expose, or crowd the histogram to the left. That seems to be a sure fire way of creating noise.
Don't shove it over so far that you blow your highlights though!

Yes but ETTR only really works well when you shoot RAW and either way you will still need to post process everything if you do ETTR properly.

My advice for this situation where shooting JPEG makes sense, is to use the ISO setting one below the "native" stops. So ISO160 and multiples of that. This will when shooting JPEG actually effectivly expose at the full stop above and "Pull" the exposure down in the JPEG creation process in the Camera. This coupled with keeping the exposure up so that the histogram sits to the right of center will give the best results without having to worry about applying any PP

Alan