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Quick question about T1i noise reduction. I'm in Alaska and hoping for the opportunity to shoot the aurora borealis. In reading about techniques I've read to "turn on digital noise reduction" and turn on "long exposure noise reduction". Does the T1i have these settings? I don't have my manual or my dummies book with me. Anyone know if this camera has these settings and where they can be found? Thanks to anyone who can help me! Should've brought the dummies book but I used up all my weight limits with lenses

Courterman08 wrote in post #10678572
My first "real" shots with my T1i

there's two from last night. the rest are here:
http://www.flickr.com/​photos/zach_courter/sh​ow/

Some nice shots...what lens are you using for these?

The first one is the kit 18-55 f3.5-5.6 and the second is my brother's 75-300 f4.0-5.6. My canon 70-200 f4L showed up the morning after. haha

Courterman08 wrote in post #10683232
The first one is the kit 18-55 f3.5-5.6 and the second is my brother's 75-300 f4.0-5.6. My canon 70-200 f4L showed up the morning after. haha

Sweet...wish I could get that sharp with my kit lens! Looking good.

MRagon wrote in post #10682396
Quick question about T1i noise reduction. I'm in Alaska and hoping for the opportunity to shoot the aurora borealis. In reading about techniques I've read to "turn on digital noise reduction" and turn on "long exposure noise reduction". Does the T1i have these settings? I don't have my manual or my dummies book with me. Anyone know if this camera has these settings and where they can be found? Thanks to anyone who can help me! Should've brought the dummies book but I used up all my weight limits with lenses

MRagon,

There are two settings that I am aware of. The first is Custom Function #4 titled "Long exp. noise reduction". You can either set it to 0:Off, 1:Auto (only turns on for exposures longer than 1 second), or 2:On.

In addition to that there's custom function 5 titled "High ISO speed noise reduct'n" which can be set to 0:Standard, 1:Low, 2:Stong and 3isable. As the title indicates, this helps reduce noise for High ISO images.

Hope that helps!

One of the articles I read said to turn noise off, it will save a lot faster. Another thing I found was to shoot a number of 30 sec to 1 minute exposures and layer them, plus a black sky for eliminating the noise.

I am hoping for some opportunities here at Old Faithful but last couple nights we had cloud cover.

Just a couple of shots from the farm Saturday. Picked 10+ lbs of tomatoes, peaches, onions and potatoes

Been a while since I posted so heres a recent shot from a friends wedding...

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BillwYellowstone wrote in post #10684708
One of the articles I read said to turn noise off, it will save a lot faster.

I'm not sure I'd turn it off, but you're correct about the longer save time. It's estimated that if you take a 30 second exposure, it will take 30 seconds to save/process the image. I guess it's a trade-off, do you want less noise or faster save times? Myself, I'd be more inclined to go for less noise. Then again, if you are more comfortable removing noise during PP, then you may wish to turn it off to gain in save times.

I played around a bit with my new T1i. I think the sun was very high overhead and washed out a lot o the colors. I needed a filter for this day.

http://matteorglossy.s​hutterfly.com/231

Taken with new 15-85mm f3.5-5.6, @15mm, f/5.6, handheld:

^^^^ Beautiful!

change of pace... b/w