30D at ISO 3200

This past was Homecoming for my alma mater Lee University in Cleveland, TN. My favorite part of this weekend is always the music festival they have on saturday night. There are a lot of music majors at this school and the music is fabulous. Each group (orchestas, ensembles, choirs, etc...) performs a song. My sister was in one of the choirs when she was in school and it was an anniversary year for them, so she was in the reunion choir. ANYWAY, I had my camera in my truck, so I brought it in. I had never used ISO 3200 before, so I set it to that. Probably didn't need that high of an ISO, but 1) I wanted to see how it would perform and, 2) I was letting my neice take some pictures and wanted to keep the shutter speed up.
I converted these fron RAW, ran Noiseware, and a little bringing up in the shadow detail. I was pretty impressed with the results.

One more:

look great!

yeah but details are lost, and I hate that plastic look noise ware gives to the photos. Anyways, very good!

The EOS 30D preforms very well at iso 3200. Like most cameras at high iso, its all about getting the exposure correct.

Here's an iso 3200 test shot I did a while back using the Nik Dfine 2.0 plug in, its 1200x800 so too large for the forum rules:

http://img141.imagesha​ck.us …g3425testnikdfi​ne2do4.jpg

Very usable.

I think auditorium shots are very difficult indeed. Congrats on getting some good ones.

Where's the banding? (That's an inside joke).

And I don't mean the musical ones.

Very nice.

Really? 3200? Holy crap... I'm assuming the 40D has similiar output...

grinchy wrote in post #4252487
look great!

Tsmith wrote in post #4252495
The EOS 30D preforms very well at iso 3200. Like most cameras at high iso, its all about getting the exposure correct.

Here's an iso 3200 test shot I did a while back using the Nik Dfine 2.0 plug in, its 1200x800 so too large for the forum rules:

http://img141.imagesha​ck.us …g3425testnikdfi​ne2do4.jpg

Dorman wrote in post #4252821
Very usable.

SuzyView wrote in post #4252828
I think auditorium shots are very difficult indeed. Congrats on getting some good ones.

nicksan wrote in post #4253223
Very nice.

Thanks. I was kinda suprised how good they looked, noisewise. I did pay very close attention to the histograms trying get the exposure right.

sandro9mm wrote in post #4252493
yeah but details are lost, and I hate that plastic look noise ware gives to the photos. Anyways, very good!

I know what you mean about the "Plastic" look, but I didn't think these looked that plasticky. Here's the last image straight from RAW conversion:

impressive ... I've got to get better at the ol' high-iso settings... on my 20D, I rarely go above 800 because my photos get too noisy

SHULTSIE!!! wrote in post #4253269
Really? 3200? Holy crap... I'm assuming the 40D has similiar output...

Yes... You can plan for comparable results... Not better but really not worse than the 30D...

here is 1 with the 40D at 3200 ISO....

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sadowsk2 wrote in post #4253448
Yes... You can plan for comparable results... Not better but really not worse than the 30D...

grinchy wrote in post #4253659
here is 1 with the 40D at 3200 ISO....

Thanks!

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread... I'll stop now...