1D Mark III ISO Does It Again

I got to shoot another charity event tonight... a comedy fund raiser in a lowly lit theater, and once again, the 1D Mark III comes thru with flying colours (the colours are indeed amazing).

This is right out of Adobe Camera Raw (beta colour profile) with NO additional noise reduction.

1D3, 150mm, 1/60s, ISO2500

Btw, also kudos to the 70-200's Image Stabilisation for making a 150mm (plus 1.3x crop) shot handholdable at 1/60s!

drisley wrote in post #6521330
I got to shoot another charity event tonight... a comedy fund raiser in a lowly lit theater, and once again, the 1D Mark III comes thru with flying colours (the colours are indeed amazing).

This is right out of Adobe Camera Raw (beta colour profile) with NO additional noise reduction.

150mm, 1/60s, ISO2500

Btw, also kudos to the 70-200's Image Stabilisation for making a 150mm (plus 1.3x crop) shot handholdable at 1/60s!

gotta love it man, nice job. I need to try it, I've never gone passed iso400 yet on mine.

arizona85224 wrote in post #6521340
gotta love it man, nice job. I need to try it, I've never gone passed iso400 yet on mine.

lol u serious? i am always up at 3200

lol with mark III 2500 is like low interms of noise

Yup - my 1D III is pretty damn dreamy when it comes to noise at high ISOs. Also has a much more pleasing grain-like noise compared to my 20D, which also makes a big difference imho.

I also find in situations like this, where you have a lot of contrast, the noise really disappears.

ISO3200... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

drisley wrote in post #6521632
ISO3200... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

lol recently shot indoor sports at 6400 and showed some old skool film is better dude the shots and his response to iso 6400 was similar to that

michael_ wrote in post #6521454
lol u serious? i am always up at 3200

lol yep.....just never needed it yet. i will try it this week, i'll find something

I agree. The Mark III has amazing high ISO Performance.

For stuff like this, I don't give ISO1600 a second thought... to me it's as usable as ISO200.
Noise doesn't start to creep in until ISO3200, and if you nail the exposure, it's very minor.

With my 1D MK2N, I used to hesitate using ISO1600, or at least I knew that in the back of my mind that if I didn't nail the exposure, some amount of Noise Ninja would be required. ISO3200 was a last resort, and it wasn't just because of the noise... the colour really suffered ... especially the reds. This doesn't happen with the 1D MK3. From Raws I've played with, the D700 and D3 are about 1/2 stop cleaner at ISO3200+ (imho), but the MK3 is still incredible.

Here is a picture taken at ISO3200, 1/60s, underexposed by about 1 stop, recovered in Adobe Camera Raw... no noise reduction.

SO, this is effectively an ISO6400 shot at 1/120s

With even just a mild run of Ninja, it would be clean as a whistle!

maybe no NR, but way too much highlight recovery... for those cases you need to use photoshop. highlight recovery tends to clip colors a lot. Put a masked layer over the section, clone the color of the arm near it, then change overlay type to "color" not the best looking way, but a lot faster.

Nice shots Drisley! I love ISO 3200!

drisley wrote in post #6557038
Here is a picture taken at ISO3200, 1/60s, underexposed by about 1 stop, recovered in Adobe Camera Raw... no noise reduction.

SO, this is effectively an ISO6400 shot at 1/120s

With even just a mild run of Ninja, it would be clean as a whistle!

That's about equal to my XTi at ISO400