Any photographers in here?

[FunkyBuddha]

Here's a pic I took with the G11. It's pretty sharp.

F8
1/200
580 on hot shoe as master (direct fire onto subject)
2 x 430 lighting up the background

 

[gr?]

~ 3 more months until it gets warm enough to go outside for photos!

 

[FunkyBuddha]

Is that your new ride?

 

[gr?]

Nope. I still have a Maxima as a beater car. I use to own a 300ZX before switching to Miatas.

 

[altspace]

Nice! I can't wait until spring time. What was I thinking buying a new camera in the middle of a cold freeze. Nothing to shoot around here! On a sad note, sold my trusty PnS last night. Good news is that money is going to a new lens.

 

[sleeper3]

wow that G11 takes an amazing picture for a point and shoot!

 

[FunkyBuddha]

The sync speed on that thing is 1/2000 for off-camera flash. It's sick. I'll post more samples tonight. I wanna do a decent panorama tonight.

 

[sleeper3]

1/2000? that's amazing!

 

[sleeper3]

Man, I love the 50d, so well behaved at higher ISO settings

ISO1600

ISO3200

ISO500 with massive shadow compression

 

[Wagonbacker9]

wow... I'm seriously tempted to jack up my ISO just to see what happens now.

 

[SeR_Cyclops]

What does the ISO control really?

 

[sleeper3]

basically the sensitivity of the sensor. It's the same as putting different speed film in a 35mm camera. The higher you crank the ISO number, the more light the sensor picks up.

As with aperture and shutter speed, there is a trade off though... the higher the ISO, the more noise you get in your photo.

I took some pictures with ISO6400 and 12800, and they were not usable. I think under certain circumstances, they might be, but these were not them.

 

[SeR_Cyclops]

so during the day a lower ISO is needed but at night a higher one is needed? If the ISO is too high does that kinda make the photo foggy during the day?

 

[FunkyBuddha]

so during the day a lower ISO is needed but at night a higher one is needed? If the ISO is too high does that kinda make the photo foggy during the day?

grainy.

 

[FunkyBuddha]

wow... I'm seriously tempted to jack up my ISO just to see what happens now.

Why are you afraid of turning up the iso? All you'd really need is the proper exposure. The higher the iso, the less room for error you have w/ the exposure. I think with your 20D, you'd be good to about 800 before the pictures become really grainy.

 

[FunkyBuddha]

Man, I love the 50d, so well behaved at higher ISO settings

ISO1600


ISO3200


ISO500 with massive shadow compression

You should try the H1 and H2 ISO modes and post a pic. It's 6400 and 12800 respectively.

EDIT: oops..didn't see that you already tried.

This one is ISO 6400

ISO 12800

 

[Wagonbacker9]

kinda cool that it works if its the look you're actually going for.... in that first one how in hell did you still get motion at 6400 iso?

 

[sleeper3]

I have found 2 things about the ISO extension on the 50d:
1. it really only works well in very desaturated or black and white pictures
2. severe banding in shadows is not avoidable

I take photos at the absolute lowest ISO possible at all times. No matter how well you expose a frame, it's going to have noise at higher ISO settings. The only time I turn ISO up is if my shutter speed is not adequate to make motion look the way I want it to.

ISO100 will always give you the best result, given adequate light.

Like I said, it's a tradeoff beyond that.

 

[sleeper3]

As you can see in almost all of my photos, I hate noise. Film grain is ok in some instances, but generally, I want buttery smoothness

That being said, one of the most important things I have learned in digital photography is how to read a histogram and "expose to the right."

 

[SeR_Cyclops]

Where do you read a histogram at?