ISO 51,600: I took this photo to send to our daughters to show how long the kitten we adopted last month has become, but I thought it also shows how good modern cameras are without...

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I took this photo to send to our daughters to show how long the kitten we adopted last month has become, but I thought it also shows how good modern cameras are without flash.

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rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Very nice.
--Bob

rehess wrote:

I took this photo to send to our daughters to show how long the kitten we adopted last month has become, but I thought it also shows how good modern cameras are without flash.

Silverrails

rehess wrote:

I took this photo to send to our daughters to show how long the kitten we adopted last month has become, but I thought it also shows how good modern cameras are without flash.

Wow, the "Download" looked very good, especially for such a High ISO.
What Camera & Settings & Lens captured this Nice photo??

Tazzy Loc: Tampa area

Beautiful kitten

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I'm guessing a Pentax of some sort f/4.5 and about 1/125 probably about 35 mm focal length.
--Bob

Silverrails wrote:

Wow, the "Download" looked very good, especially for such a High ISO.
What Camera & Settings & Lens captured this Nice photo??

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I’m impressed. Flashes usually freak out dogs, cats and people.

This is a nice capture of a cat just hanging out.

With my Canon, I have the ISO dialed as high as I can go without getting “noise.” Recently I was at a birthday party for my sister in law. I had several people complain that the flash on my camera was annoying them. They weren’t noticing my camera had no flash. I ended up telling the manager that I wasn’t using a flash and I’m not like most of the millennials in the restaurant using their cell phone.

If you know how to work the exposure triangle, it really isn’t any sweat!

Happy shooting!

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Silverrails wrote:

Wow, the "Download" looked very good, especially for such a High ISO.
What Camera & Settings & Lens captured this Nice photo??

@rmarlarz was very close. This is an SOOC JPEG from my Pentax KP in what they call ‘TAv’ mode - which is defined as being the same as ‘M’ mode plus auto ISO.

I couldn’t remember the settings, but the EXIF shows I had my 18-135mm lens zoomed to 31mm, with settings 1/125 and f/4.5.

Iron Sight Loc: Utah

Interesting

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Excellent results with available light!

wapiti Loc: round rock, texas

That's amazing.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Scruples wrote:

I’m impressed. Flashes usually freak out dogs, cat... (show quote)

Thank you for your comments. I have noticed that our older cat often leaves when I just pick up a camera. I sometimes use flash inside to add light, but it usually adds or deletes shadows, changing the scene from what I am looking at.

horaceunit Loc: Delaware

rehess wrote:

I took this photo to send to our daughters to show how long the kitten we adopted last month has become, but I thought it also shows how good modern cameras are without flash.

It still kills me though! It's really hard to use an ISO over 800 since that is about as far as I would push tri-x back in the day. It was almost the same in the early days of digital too. If you went too much over 800 or so the grain (noise) was pretty bad. I still find myself cringing at high ISO settings when in aperture priority but as your picture shows it isn't as much of an issue anymore.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

horaceunit wrote:

It still kills me though! It's really hard to use an ISO over 800 since that is about as far as I would push tri-x back in the day. It was almost the same in the early days of digital too. If you went too much over 800 or so the grain (noise) was pretty bad. I still find myself cringing at high ISO settings when in aperture priority but as your picture shows it isn't as much of an issue anymore.

Before I got this KP a year ago, I limited myself to ISO=800, but I had heard good things about the KP’s ISO range, so I have been exploring. I believe we will have to rethink our standards with cameras such as the Pentax KP and the Nikon D750 around. Noise, Dynamic Range, and color fidelity are all expanded to the point that we can finally decouple a need from light from aperture opening, and use ‘fast’ apertures mostly when we want narrow DOF.

horaceunit Loc: Delaware

rehess wrote:

Before I got this KP a year ago, I limited myself to ISO=800, but I had heard good things about the KP’s ISO range, so I have been exploring. I believe we will have to rethink our standards with cameras such as the Pentax KP and the Nikon D750 around. Noise, Dynamic Range, and color fidelity are all expanded to the point that we can finally decouple a need from light from aperture opening, and use ‘fast’ apertures mostly when we want narrow DOF.

I totally agree but it's still hard to "unlearn" the old limitations. I still don't go over 1600 very often as a general rule, but I have "pushed" it to 3200 on occasion. I suppose I should experiment with higher ISO settings too!

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

horaceunit wrote:

I totally agree but it's still hard to "unlearn" the old limitations. I still don't go over 1600 very often as a general rule, but I have "pushed" it to 3200 on occasion. I suppose I should experiment with higher ISO settings too!

Tes, I was a grad student when Kodak released ‘CG’ film, allowing me to push color film all the way to 400!!