What can I say other than I am impressed!
I shot the images below in my office right after loading the firmware and setting all my preferences. I find 1250 excellent now, at least when processed in C1. Note that the key here is processing in C1 --- for whatever reason, LR, ACR or Aperture do not appear to handle the noise any better than the they did with the previous firmware. But it is so good now with C1, my new normal preference setting for the M8 is Auto ISO with a 1250 max and 1/30 shutter min. (This is cool in that if you need more, the camera dips below 1/30th and the shutter speed blinks to alert you --- PERFECT set up for the way I shoot when in aperture preferred mode.)
But of course i wanted to see how well 2500 could perform, so I shot a quick snap. The first is the full frame for reference, the next crop is straight out of C1 with NR set to Lum 20, Color 70, the last is that file run through DFine on auto. Note the shadow area in the dark part of the bookcase:
Obviously I need to more testing in a variety of lighting, but I must say this looks *very* promising to me. If I can get a usable ISO 2500 out of my M8 like this, then I may not have any need or a DSLR --- Way cool!
:toocool:,
I shot the images below in my office right after loading the firmware and setting all my preferences. I find 1250 excellent now, at least when processed in C1. Note that the key here is processing in C1 --- for whatever reason, LR, ACR or Aperture do not appear to handle the noise any better than the they did with the previous firmware. But it is so good now with C1, my new normal preference setting for the M8 is Auto ISO with a 1250 max and 1/30 shutter min. (This is cool in that if you need more, the camera dips below 1/30th and the shutter speed blinks to alert you --- PERFECT set up for the way I shoot when in aperture preferred mode.)
But of course i wanted to see how well 2500 could perform, so I shot a quick snap. The first is the full frame for reference, the next crop is straight out of C1 with NR set to Lum 20, Color 70, the last is that file run through DFine on auto. Note the shadow area in the dark part of the bookcase:
Obviously I need to more testing in a variety of lighting, but I must say this looks *very* promising to me. If I can get a usable ISO 2500 out of my M8 like this, then I may not have any need or a DSLR --- Way cool!
:toocool:,