D-Lux 3 usable at ISO3200? Judge from picture.

[Guest malland]

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Judging from the following picture, the D-Lux 3 seems to be usable at ISO3200 in certain circumstances, when the JPG smearing is not obvious. What do you think?

 

 

I also attach a colour version of this picture, which some people may like better. Which one do you prefer?

 

—Mitch/Lubumbashi

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

[Donald]

Mitch,

 

very nice result under these circumstances! Youre question however needs to be a bit more specific. It looks nice on my monitor. A screen however only needs 72 dpi for displaying where as a fotograph really needs 300 dpi. So really to judge the quality on an 8 by 10 it needs to be enlarged 4 times. Wonder what that will do with the noise reduction.

 

That doesn't withstand the fact that this picture displays a wonderfull ambience.

[farnz]

Mitch,

 

Very impressive performance on screen for ISO 3200! No noise 'splodges' that I'd expect to find this high up and no apparent smearing.

 

Pete.

[Guest stnami]

Well Mitch you can aways chuck it through a Alien 's Skin

[Guest malland]

I'll have to try to make a couple of prints both ways when I get back to Bangkok.

 

—Mitch/Lubumbashi

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

[Guest sirvine]

I don't like this kind of noise reduction...it looks like a photoshop 1 plugin (facets?) to me. Impressive image nonetheless.

[Guest malland]

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Sol, the whole point of this thread is that the agressive noise reduction of the "high sensitivity" (ISO3200) mode of the D-Lux 3 and the other Panasonic/Leica cameras using the Venus III JPG engine usually leads to hideously "smeared" results. However, what I'm finding is that, if the scene is dark enough so that the smearing is largely not visible, one can get acceptable, or even, interesting, results. That is why I started the threads and asked for people's views.

 

—Mitch/Lubumbashi

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

[jscolman]

Hi, ok, I just looked at my D-Lux-3......how do I "turn on" ISO 3200?.....I see only 1600 as the max. Thanks, Jim.

[Guest malland]

It's one of the "scenes". I don't recall exactly, but you set "High Sensitivity" as the scene and then turn the dial at the top of the camera to "Scene".

 

—Mitch/Lubumbashi

[biglouis]

I prefer the original version rather than the alien skin version but that is my personal preference. Picture looks pretty amazing to me and well captured under difficult lighting conditions.

 

LouisB

[MJLogan]

I'd say that the JPEG smearing is glaringly obvious, but only to the noise-obsessed. A color photo containing lots of small detail would look like a bad impressionist painting with that level of JPEG smearing, but your simple, high-contrast BW composition, with a beautifully expressive face as the focal point, survived intact. My reactions, in order:

 

1: What a beautiful photo.

 

2: ( A fraction of a second later) Oh--I see the smearing.

 

3: (Another fraction of a second) But I don't care about it--it's still a beautiful photo.

[Guest malland]

Thanks, Louis. I had pretty much written off using the ISO3200 "High Sensitivity" mode when I went down into a underground mine and decided to try it. It seems to me this mode can have interesting results. I'll try again to attch the colour version of the picture, but I'm not sure that is will work because of the flakyness of my internet connection here.

 

—Mitch/Lubumbashi

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[snowflakeschance]

I think this is a wonderful picture, in both b&w and color. I haven't seen you use color too much before.

[biglouis]

I agree with Nina, the colour picture is even better than the b/w picture. Sure, you can see the noise but the picture itself has such interest, imho, that it does not detract at all.

 

LouisB