I opened both pics in PhotoShop and looked at them at 400%. There is almost no noise in the well exposed areas, such as the white part of the license plate frame or the light maple wood on the picture frame. The noise in the shadows seems minimal. The BMW appears to be a bit dirty :-). Seriously, I don't think you have a problem here. You need to make some good inkjet prints from a well exposed file interpolated up to 11 x 17 at 360 dpi during conversion. It's my belief that one has to evaluate prints rather than screen images to know where ones at at with digital, or with a scanned film image for that matter.
Paul
On Sep 24, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:

There seems to be a fair amount of noise in the pix generated by my DS.
Here are two examples - each 100% crops - taken directly from unmanipulated
PEF files.  I've noticed this since the very first pix I took.

http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/bmw_noise.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/pic_noise.jpg

The first was shot @ 200 ISO, where the DS is supposed to be virtually
noiseless, the second @ 400 ISO.

What could be causing this noise? Underexposure? Some camera setting that needs changing or adjustment? I can clean it up a bit with ACR, but should
that be necessary?

Shel
"Silence is Golden"



Reply via email to