Noise Reduction and the Nikon D300

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"Roger" said:
Ray, this is the same sensor as the 50D. If you look at the noise tests from a site that shall not be named, they said that after ISO 1600 the D300 just blows away the 50D, mostly because of the large amounts of built-in noise reduction, which Canon is including on all images above a certain ISO now, even with RAW. (That's coming from what I've read; Sony set the standard because the A700 still did NR onchip with NR "off" until the most recent FW update. Canon kind of hinted at it in their white paper on the 5D Mk2 by the terminology of "tweaking" the "amplification" of the sensors) It may have the high ISO but the loss of detail is apparent.
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Roger,

You actually prompted more questions than answers so I thought I'd start a new thread.....

I am having a horrible time with Noise even at lower ISO's on my D300. I'm shooting RAW but is there something I should be doing to allow the camera to reduce noise
 
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Ray,

I'm not having the issue with mine. Can you detail your settings? I've found that if I turn the sharpening up too high in camera (anything above 6 I believe) the images do not look that great. Any full res examples would be helpful too.

Cheers,

Mark
 
"mPower" said:
Ray,

I'm not having the issue with mine. Can you detail your settings? I've found that if I turn the sharpening up too high in camera (anything above 6 I believe) the images do not look that great. Any full res examples would be helpful too.

Cheers,

Mark
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I have all standard out-of-the-box settings except:
ISO sensitivity auto control = ON
NEF (RAW) recording Type = ON Lossless Compressed and NEF (RAW) bit depth = 12bit
JPEG Compression = Optimal (for when I decide to shoot in JPEG)
 
High ISO NR = NORM
Long Exp. NR = OFF

That is the setting out of the box. I was under the impression that NR only worked if you were shooting to JPEG.

Also, I don't know how to link to a NEF. I don't have a place to upload a NEF to. Flickr doesn't let you.
 
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