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Originally Posted by Original-Tin
Found this Nikon D300 Review: 18. Photographic tests: Digital Photography Review gives a comparison chart of ISO for the D300. After a very brief Google on the subject there appears to be some debate going on about the noise with some people comenting on it being 'grainy' but nothing as to the cause.
Judging from the shot I doubt that the camera would be doing any NR processing on the shot though this also appears to be under debate as to whether the camera does anything with the RAW image no one seems to know for sure. |
I also read that site and looked at those images and that's what made me think the noise in my images were worse than those dpreview are showing. From a settings standpoint the camera only performs noise reduction for what it deems to be "High ISO" which I wouldn't include 200 in that. I guess my overriding question is that do other's (especially any other D300 users) see the noise in my image at ISO 200 as being excessive for that ISO?
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Originally Posted by Soupdragon
If you have active D lighting on? I suggest turning it off and trying again.
Are you using capture NX to convert your images? if not, I suggest you give it a go too.
Good luck.
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I am not sure why Active D Lighting would affect noise? It doesn't affect the sensor sensitivity in my understanding and I haven't read of other's who have disabled it due to it producing noise. I am reluctant to disable the Active D given that it does actually do a great job at lifting shadows and normalising the hightlights in strong contrast situations.
The noise you see btw is exactly as it appears in the raw and, yes, I do use Capture NX almost exclusively. Great program!
