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Artist // Hobbyist // Photography
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If it moves, shoot it! With a camera of course. Having moved into photography some years ago, I found myself most active in wildlife. This includes semi-urban/garden areas, as well as more exotic captive animals as found in zoos and wildlife parks. Currently of particular interest are big cats and reptiles. I've dabbled in most areas to some degree other than the human elements, such as street or portrait. They're low down on the to do list.


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Total Recall, True Lies, Starship Troopers
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Top Gear, HIGNFY, Mock the Week
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Vocaloid
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Jeremy Clarkson
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DDR
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PS2
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Computers, Photography, Crested Geckos

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The detail loss at high ISO I don't think will ever really be overcome short of a revolution in imaging techniques. I go for "good enough" not pixel perfect every time.

Definitely noise is a problem, colour noise is the easy one to process. You can get rid of remaining grain but usually that just makes everything look blurry. So the fine grain from a good converter is often preferable.
Zack 06
I don't think the 450D is that bad myself, I use it to 1600 and even wish it had a 3200 setting :XD:

Is it only noise? Or the reduced dynamic range also a problem too? Noise can be controlled by noise reduction software or if you go raw, a good converter will handle it nicely. But either way yes it does start to cost fine detail when pixel peeping. Dynamic range is harder and to me leads to dull looking images however much you process after.
Zack 06
Might be worth trying higher ISO settings to get the smaller apertures in similar conditions, and see how you feel about that tradeoff?
Zack 06
So long ago I can't remember, but fortunately I wrote it in earlier comments: I used a small scope, the Celestron Nexstar 4SE with 2x barlow to give effective 2650mm f/26. Mosaic of 11 images although if I got the overlap better I could use less.
Moon 20110318
This was taken in a park close to where I live, although in all the times I've been there this was the only time I ever saw anything it.
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