Oh, there's noise there, and a fair amount of it. You just can't see it in these small images. Still, it's less objectionable, IMHO, than film grain at the same ISO. Also, Neat Image allows batch processing to reduce the effect of noise/film grain.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: RE: istD Concert photos > Beautiful shots, Bill. And ISO 3200? Amazing; no grain! > > cheers, > frank > > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer > > > > > >From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: istD Concert photos > >Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:56:54 -0500 > > > >Our son, the band director, had his Christmas Concert this evening. I used > >the ist D with available light, 3200 ISO and manual white balance taken on > >one of the students shirts. Most were taken with my Tamron 70-300 (105-450 > >equivalent), all handheld. The more I use the ist D, the more I like it! > > > >http://groups.msn.com/BillOwensPhotos/shoebox.msnw?Page=Last > > > >Bill > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca > >

