Hello all.
How many of you use the D700's internal long exposure noise reduction? I've been doing some work documenting exhibitions and to make sure I get the least grain and sufficient depth of field, I'm often exposing as speeds up to ten seconds at 200ISO. The results, which are usually high contrast scenes where I need to maintain highlight detail from spot lights (and I don't have time in the budget to do HDR,) look pretty blotchy and lacking detail in the mid to darker tones. I have a feeling the noise reduction is really smearing detail and flattening things out. Would this be true? Do the rest of you get the camera to do NR on long exposures or do you just handle it in post?
Thanks.
How many of you use the D700's internal long exposure noise reduction? I've been doing some work documenting exhibitions and to make sure I get the least grain and sufficient depth of field, I'm often exposing as speeds up to ten seconds at 200ISO. The results, which are usually high contrast scenes where I need to maintain highlight detail from spot lights (and I don't have time in the budget to do HDR,) look pretty blotchy and lacking detail in the mid to darker tones. I have a feeling the noise reduction is really smearing detail and flattening things out. Would this be true? Do the rest of you get the camera to do NR on long exposures or do you just handle it in post?
Thanks.