jonoslack
Active member
You don't need to downrez first - you just don't need to make the noise worse by uprezzing afterwards! You do need to change your workflow however.Jono, when I'm shooting at high iso I'm shooting in bad light, I'm also usually shooting fast without time to manipulate my light. That usually translates as noise. What I saw was that those files looked worse per pixel than my 6 year old 5D at every iso from 400 up and that was when they had optimal lighting and I didn't have to touch the fill or brightness slider.
Thing is, I'm already uprezzing most of the time to print from my 5Dc for my fine art work. So I'm downrezzing to kill the noise the uprezzing again and at that point it does get rather silly does it not?
It seems to me that by your logic you should be looking for less resolution and a large sensor - because that will always give you the best 'per pixel' 100% results.
My personal feeling is that this logic is why people are still using the original 5d, and the D700 - because they always make their comparisons looking at images at 100%, rather than looking at a comparable portion of the image.
Doing two wedding books simultaneously with images from D700 for one wedding and the A900 for another was a real eye opener. Quite against my expectations the A900 images looked much better when printed large book size than the D700 - despite their looking much better at 100% on screen.
all the best