>>4481136That's really nice. Well, that's heartening to read at least, thanks! I got this camera just in time for a recent vacation and got a chunk of the beginner's stupidity out of my system. Much of the time I was shooting photos was out of the passenger window of a car, or while power walking from one place to another, and I had no concept of how fast the SS needed to be to freeze motion, so I used Tv mode and kept it pretty damn high. I didn't think to change my settings to allow for more light when I could, since I didn't realize how bad really high ISOs were, so a lot of the photos capped out at 25600 when it wasn't bright. I didn't see all of the noise in the preview images, so it wasn't until I opened them on my PC that I saw how noisy they were. I honestly don't mind the film grain look, especially since I'm forgiving of myself for not knowing. My only regret is that I don't get to have fun pulling up the shadows and seeing what all was hiding in them. Though even at 25600, I've found that the photos can often be somewhat presentable with post-processing.
Here's one of those photos resized to 50% but otherwise exported as-is from LR. 25600 ISO, 105mm, f/7.1, 1/2000 (LMAO). I know it's atrocious in a technical sense, but there's enough information here to make it presentable for untrained eyes, so the sensor is clearly doing some incredibly heavy lifting for me.
