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Not too surprising IMHO. The D700 (and of course the D3) just kick ass in terms of low light high ISO performance. I don't shoot weddings (thank God as my fragile state of mind could probably not deal with it LOL!) but if I did I would thank the Lord for the D700. What a great machine.Looked good in my nicely lit studio also. Didn't look so good at a wedding I shot in low light. D700 kicked it's ass. : -(
Yes, I am eagerly awaiting to get my upgrade. Here is that ISO 1250 sample I promised from the Open House.Carlos
As I am sure you already know, Bibble is releasing version 5 of Bibble Pro in October. They really do make a wonderful converter. Wish they would support medium format files as well.
Woody
processed in Capture one with the default noise settings.. didn't process it in any other Noise app.Looks very clean too Jim.
Use of C1 may well be the difference Jack. I know many, including you, have refined the settings in C1 to get the very most out of the M8 files.My C1 settings did not change at all, and I still see cleaner ISO 1250 and 2500 files... Don't know what else to say except it is working for me.
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Again not to take away from what others are seeing, but I shot a couple of photos at 1250 & 2500 on the old firmware right before updating in dim light. I then shot the same shots with the new firmware, and no saw no difference when using the same C1 settings.FWIW, I asked Steffan Daniel at Photokina if the new v2.0 fw offered any noise improvement. Surprisingly, he said no. According to him, the only chages were the Auto ISO and SDHC support. I pressed further, asking if he was sure there was no work done to high ISO files. He again said there was absolutely no improvements done. Crazy. Straight from the source.
Perhaps the latest version of C1 is offering better noise reduction algorithms.
David