A little bad news, is this the banding issue many discussed about in international forums?
11. ISO25600 original shot direct from D700, resized
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12. ISO6400 original shot direct from D700, resized (much better)
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Unfortunately, it is still possible to get banding problem even at ISO 3200 if we try to recover from the shadow portion like in this pic.
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Don't need any particular method at all. I just expose normally and tried to get more details in the dark skies by playing with Shadow/Highlight in Photoshop. The original pic is this one:
Now, I am gettin worried. I do shoot at ISO 3200 sometimes. Is this prevalent in the D3 at this ISO?
I want to do a test on mine. Is there a particular method to shoot so that I can test whether there is a banding issue?
Now, I am gettin worried. I do shoot at ISO 3200 sometimes. Is this prevalent in the D3 at this ISO?
I want to do a test on mine. Is there a particular method to shoot so that I can test whether there is a banding issue?
That's true.Shooting at ISO 3200 and 6400 on the D700 do not give you any banding. If so than you have to bring it to NSC.
What Tomcat is showing is that:
IF you take any properly exposed image shot at 3200 or high (without any banding seen), using photoshop or any other software, when you push up the exposure digitally there you will see the banding. Actually this is the case for even ISO 200, try pushing up the exposure on photoshop of a properly exposed image taken at night at ISO 200 you will see the noises and grain etc..
That's true.
The saving grace with the D700 is that it is so good at high ISO that we don't really need to use workarounds like under-exposing and then pushing in Photoshop to get higher ISO images. Then again there would always be people around who would 'torture' an image, be it from the D700 or any other make of DSLRs, to an inch of its life just to show that banding exists.![]()
it could mean that the people at Nikon are really pushing the processing of the signal off the sensor to the limit, squeezing every last bit of info out to the point that pushing it abit further causes some banding... that might be how they are achieving the unprecedented levels of sensitivity for a DSLR... no right or wrong to this, each company has its own way of doing things... but as long as the properly exposed images show no significant artifacts (and it is only at high ISO), shouldn't be a major issue...In other DSLRs like those of Olympus, you actually have to severely underexpose by at least 2EV at high ISO and then try to recover before you get such bands. And they say that Olympus DSLRs are bad at banding...![]()
I am afraid it is. Banding is an issue with recent camera bodies from Nikon. My D3 exhibit the same problem as your D700 at highest ISO.
Like what other bro says, dun think many will shoot at such high ISO.
ISO 6400 is more than enough for very low light shoot... at least on a hand held basis.
So banding or no banding at high ISO... no issue.
What you guys think?