I will be getting my camera out more with the holidays. No white stuff here yet. I am not anxious. JC --- John Christensen Saint Charles, IL On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Winter at 1600 and 3200 ISO. > > 7D camera, 18-200 RF-S lens at 18mm taken from my front porch (such as it > is...it's more like 4 concrete steps.) > > 1600 photo: 1/4 sec f4, monopod. > > 3200 photo 1/20 sec f3.5, hand held. > > Image stabilization on for both of 'em. > > Illumination: available light plus porch light fluorescent 40w. > > Some fiddling in Paintshop to correct white balance, color cast and > contrast. No sharpening. > > Original images from 18.2mp sensor 5184x3456, 7mb each. I didn't get the > RAW image. Maybe later. > > Absolutely astounding that ISO values that high can produce passable > results. Neither one of 'em is gonna win a prize for Image Quality, but > compared to the last time I messed with fast film (1970, using Ilford 800 > pan) they're almost like what you'd see from Kodachrome at 25. > > Boggles the mind. > > RtR