Overgaard Posted September 18, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted September 18, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can anybody who use D-Lux 3 a lot shortly state which ISO is the highest for day-to-day use, with no or acceptable noise? Â In short: Recommended ISO setting? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest tummydoc Posted September 18, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted September 18, 2007 ISO 100 RAW, maybe 100 JPEG if you don't make big prints. 200 RAW is as high as I would go before some kind of noise reduction plug-in would be recommended. The in-camera noise reduction is appalling, it smears fine detail to death. I gave one to my wife, and she shoots happy snaps and even she can't stand ISO 400 JPEGs. I also gave one to my daughter, who isn't petrified or lazy to shoot RAW and use Noise Ninja (which has profiles for the camera at each ISO and works quite automatically), and her results are incomparably better. From my point of view, the ability to shoot RAW is what stands the camera and the LX-2 apart from the herd. There are far less expensive cameras that have far better in-camera JPEG processing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted September 18, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted September 18, 2007 Maximum of ISO 200 but when I need more I underexpose by up to 2 stops and recover in post processing (Raw). Smearing starts at ISO 400 and by 800 is IMO not usable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gesper Posted September 19, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted September 19, 2007 Agree, anything over 200 is generally worthless. Try to stay with 100 where possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterits Posted September 19, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted September 19, 2007 I agree with the other comments. I use 100 to 200 - I have obtained some good shots with 400, but not a perfered setting. Â John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted September 19, 2007 Author Share #6 Â Posted September 19, 2007 Thanks for your comments, forum members. Â I thought the D-Lux 3 could go higher but it sounds like the D1 and D2. That one should stay with 100 ISO, 200 ISO if really needed. But nice camera though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEBnewyork Posted September 19, 2007 Share #7 Â Posted September 19, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) If you can live with going as high as 200 then Auto ISO is a good choice because the camera tries to stay as low as possible but there are intermediate values available using this option (100, 125, 160, 200). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie_O Posted September 20, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted September 20, 2007 Turn the in-camera NR to its lowest setting and you can get good results, with film-grain-like noise, up to ISO 800 (especially in B&W). ISO 100 will print well up to 16"x20". ISO 400 will print well in B&W up to 16x20, if you're willing to have an image that looks like it was printed from Tri-X or HP-5. Â Some ISO 800 shots from last night in Southwark: Â Â Â Â More at the Flickr site in my sig. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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