gessman Loc: Colorado

Thank you, Sir.

MMunsey

Thanks for your reply, cautions, & suggestion. My thought in part was that someone saying they get good results shooting at ISO 12800, for instance, means one thing if they’ve got the latest 5D Mark lV and another for a 10-year old camera.

To your point on reading reviews, I’ve done a bit of that. I’ll probably take your advice and start a new topic later.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

That is true even if "all" you're shooting at is ISO 3200, as I did a few minutes ago on a "blue gray" afternoon with a squirrel in our backyard - the best reason I can think of to purchase a new camera right now.

gessman Loc: Colorado

The unfortunate thing is that unless the poster who says they get "good results" actually lets us see what to them "good results" are in the form of observable images, regardless of the gear they're using, we have no way of gauging what "good results" actually are and we possibly tend to make the assumption that the older and cheaper the gear used, the worse we can expect the images to be but the responsibility for that also often rests on other factors such as the relative dynamic range in a scene. I'm no expert on any of this stuff so I don't know for sure, but I would think, that scenes that stay within the dynamic range capabilities of a given camera are likely to produce less noise and hence can be handled well by lessor capable equipment.

Being rather photographically unskilled and naive as I am, when I encounter a subjective comment regarding "good results" that interests me and the poster hasn't offered an example of what "good results" means to them, I go to their profile and look through their past "topics created" and see if I can determine from images they've posted precisely what "good results" means to them. If they've not posted any images, as many have not, I tend to bypass their future nebulous comments and just ignore them regardless of what other evidence seems to indicate a sophisticated level of photographic knowledge. I feel posting images that show precisely what is meant by subjective comments that are offered in the form of advice is critical if the person making the comments expects to have any credibility.

Seeing that you are a very new member, in the event you don't know how to get to another member's profile, click on their name by their avatar and that will take you to their profile. Then click on "The number of topics created" and go down the list looking for a topic where they've likely posted images in one of the sections within uhh like "Photo Gallery" or perhaps one of the specialty forums like "True Macro," "Close-Up," "HDR," or whatever, looking through a few posts in an attempt to see what "good results" means to them. I do that a lot because there's so many subjective comments offered in uhh posts that it's impossible to tell what a person is saying otherwise - "a picture is worth a thousand words," and you cannot make the assumption that what is "good results" to them is the same as it is to you. Only then can you judge for yourself what "good results" means and how it matches up to yours because of the variance in what is acceptable from one person to the next.

GrandmaG Loc: Flat Rock, MI

I’m not comfortable going above 6400; except when ABSOLUTELY necessary