I’ve always believe avoid to shoot at high ISO so I may get the sharpest phots. Recently while in an aquarium where I need to capture fast moving fishes in a low light situation, with a wide open 2.8 f-stop and slow shutter speed I knew I wasn’t going to catch any fish; on top of that, I wouldn’t want to use flash because of all the glasses around guarantee WILL produce reflections. So it was time to bump up the ISO and have a fast enough shutter speed to freeze some moving fishes.
With today’s “Noise Reduction” technology, you can hardly tell the difference on computers or even on prints, of course unless you blow the photos up 300% or do large prints. Example photos below show the ISO at 2500 and 3200. I don’t know about you, but I’m quite satisfied with the quality.
So the bottom line is, when you are in situations where adding lighting won’t be appropriate, in an indoor basketball game where you don’t want to miss your son’s dunking, basically when you don’t want to miss any shots, you may want to consider raise the ISO way up.
With today’s “Noise Reduction” technology, you can hardly tell the difference on computers or even on prints, of course unless you blow the photos up 300% or do large prints. Example photos below show the ISO at 2500 and 3200. I don’t know about you, but I’m quite satisfied with the quality.
So the bottom line is, when you are in situations where adding lighting won’t be appropriate, in an indoor basketball game where you don’t want to miss your son’s dunking, basically when you don’t want to miss any shots, you may want to consider raise the ISO way up.