50D at high ISO

[rockpics]

I have to fight gearheadedness, dang it, because it's just not cost effective. Imagine my dismay when my barely used 50D was upstaged by that new kid on the block, the 7D, which reportedly gives very good files at high ISO for a 1.6X crop cam. So, today I set myself a task. I shot 3200 ISO on the 50D and processed the images with Topaz Denoise. I don't think they look that bad, although I know it's hard to tell from the downsized files.

[j1mmyj4m]

You'd probably be hard pressed to distinguish a photo taken with the 50D vs the 7D at 3200. I'd say your pics look great at that iso.

[rockpics]

Thanks, Brock.

[David Alaniz]

Pretty good for a high ISO.

[Patti Edens]

These look great! You have so much detail preserved in the birds! I was so disappointed with my 50D when I first got it because the noise was so much worse than my old 20D, but then I had to realize that I had almost twice the pixels and if I cropped out half of the photo, the noise was about the same.

I just got Topaz a few weeks ago and love it. It is so much better than what I had been using - Noise Ninja and Imagenomics.

[ttusa]

Looks good to me Jill!

[rockpics]

Thanks everyone. I need to experiment some more with Topaz Denoise. So far I've used it on jpegs that were also noise reduced in camera. That's not the recommended way, but I thought it turned out OK.

[Shadow]

Looks very nice to me. Ditto on the Topaz.

[houtex01]

Jil, very nice job with the high ISO...haven't tried that high of ISO setting on my 50D yet...guess I need to experiment with it...also just got my copy of Topaz Denoise installed...thanks Patti for help...

Ron

[jfoureyes]

There ain't nothing wrong with these at all!! I can get away with shooting 400 ISO with my D80 and still get fairly nice results using NX2 noise reduction and processing. Anything above that I turn into abstract art photos

[rockpics]

Thanks, guys. I have an old version of Neat Image and I like how it makes a profile for your camera at various ISO's, but I think Topaz DeNoise is preserving more detail.

[newtune3]

I love the Topaz Labs DeNoise5 product. Even the 7D has residual noise at 3200 believe me. But, this product really makes the noise manangable. Great job on this images.

[sandboa]

Wow! I had no idea that kind of NR was possible with any plug-in or without.
May have to look into that once since I would love to shoot at higher ISOs.

Thanks for the lead.

Chris

[rockpics]

I just realized I ran the Topaz NR on 16bit tiffs rather than on Jpegs. The tiffs were converted in DPP, and had standard in camera noise reduction applied. When I made a jpeg from Raw with noise reduction turned off and then ran Topaz NR, the results were not nearly as good.