high ISO with K7

With all the talk about high ISO from KX, KR, also K5,I tried a few shots inside with the K7 manual exposure and ISO set at 3200 - the shots are as good as any I have seen at high ISO`s from any camera.

I think its fine. The sort of shot you might need to make when no other light available. I did an exercise at 1600 earlier this year but in bright sunlight, just as a "let's see how they turn out".

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Hi ISO situations are generally a very very small percentage of the situations in which most people shoot.

I see you also had +0.7 exp comp.

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K10 I have looked at your shot at 1600 it is very good.

I done the same thing just for the fun of it didn`t notice the exposure comp,but how or why do thay come out without grain at high ISO`s

Probably signal to noise ratio?

I'll shoot some later this evening, full moon tonight so I'll be out n about howling.

Had a look at the image, it needed levels doing. I softened and sharpened after levels were touched at the right side.

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slightly different image?

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Good luck we have rain so no chance over here, but I have to try my, or should I say Clarky`s 600 with the 2x

Very much improved,I posted JPEG from the camera with no P&P to see why it has little noise.

and several sand bags to rest it on??????

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Very impressive results from the K7 there that is allegedly bad at high ISO settings, seems very acceptable to me. This is one reason I couldn't justify spending another £400 upgrading to the K5. Good to see the before processing and after shot's thanks fella's

Some from today @ 3200
f/16 3200ISO




f/22 3200 ISO




No noise reduction, just levels and a touch of sharpening.

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Here are 2 shots I took with my K-7 at Birmingham on Saturday night ( 23rd Oct )

Floodlit track, no flash, ISO 6400

Regards, Chris.

A few more high ISO K-7 shots, although increasingly these ISOs aren't thought of as 'high' any more
ISO 1250


ISO 1000


ISO 640



To be honest I haven't really needed to go to much higher ISOs than these.

My experience is that in reasonable light, high ISOs with the K-7 are perfectly usable - especially if you shoot RAW. In low light, shadow noise can become a problem but if you keep to ISO1600 or below, it's usually fine - especially at normal viewing and print sizes.

People spend too much time obsessing about 100% pixel-level quality when that is of little consequence if what you need is an A4 print, or to look at a photograph on a computer monitor.

My shiny new second hand K-7 is on the courier as we speak. Very happy to see the great shots in this thread
That first stockcar at 6400 is great. Can't wait to take my cam to the speedway !
cheers
Pete

A few from Coventry Stadium yesterday ( 13th Nov )

Taken from the back of the grandstand using Sv setting and a 55-300 lens.

ISO 3200




ISO 3200




ISO 4000




ISO 4000