Sony A7rII: Shooting very high ISO and get clean images with (almost) no noise (by Dierk Topp)

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This is a guest posy from Dierk Topp:

Shooting very high ISO and get clean images with (almost) no noise

A few days ago I saw a great tutorial about achieving high ISO images with low or almost no noise. I found it at lenswork.com, my favorite photo site with incredible picture series. The link to the tutorial follows at the end.

In astro photography this method seems to be very common, but using it for any hand held shooting is something different.

The main idea is, that by stacking multiple shots of exactly the same scene or object the different noise patterns of the images get combined and disappear. This can be very effective with high ISO and especially with small sensors. You set the camera on Hi continuous shooting and shoot a series of pictures. You will get a feeling for the amount of pictures depending of the exposure time it may take a while.

I got so exited, that I went out and started shooting the Christmas tree in front of our beautiful townhall with up to ISO 6.400. After learning the processing in PS I found, that I should try even higher ISO the next day. The problem that day was, that it was very windy and the tree and the flags where moving a lot.

Here is my first test shot
made with the Sony A7RII and the Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS hand held 1/20 sec. at ISO 6.400, stacked from 12 images

noise suppression with stacked images
if you don’t have or can use a tripod shoot some images (better more than 4) with high ISO hand held
load them into CS as layers
edit: Auto-Allign Layers
layers: convert to smart objects
layers: Smart Objects – Stack mode – Mean
and try to find the noise :-)
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New preorder: Flashpoint R2 Pro 2.4GHz Transmitter for Sony

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The new Flashpoint R2 Pro 2.4GHz Transmitter for Sony is on preorder at Adorama. CreativeLive is offering must-have classes for just $29 today only.

Many of the famous Black Friday deals are back:

Sigma:
$100 off on the Sigma MC-11 E-mount adapter at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

Save up to $3o0 on Zeiss FE lenses:
$300 off on the Zeiss Batis 135mm FE lens at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
$180 off on the Zeiss Batis 85mm FE lens at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
$195 off on the Zeiss Batis 25mm FE lens at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
$225 off on the Zeiss Batis 18mm FE lens at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
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Save up to $350 on Rokinon autofocus FE lenses:
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Voigtlander FE savings:
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Laowa FE savings:
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$500 off on the Sony A7rII at Buydig, BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and Focuscamera.
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$200 off on the Sony A7 at Buydig, BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama.
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$100 off on the Sony 5100 at Buydig, Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Focuscamera.
$200 off on the A6000 dual kit at Buydig, Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Focuscamera.
$50 gift card with the RX10m5 at Adorama.
FF E-mount lenses:
$100 off on the 16-35mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
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$50 off on the 16-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
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Sony A7rIII + Nikon 400mm autofocus test

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Bernd Smid from our A7rIII group tested the [shoplink 65175 ebay]Nikon 400mm f/3.5[/shoplink] autofocus performance using the [shoplink 65176]Techard adapter[/shoplink]:

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Imaging Edge (Remote/Viewer/Edit) 1.0.01 has been released. Improvements list:

Fixed the phenomenon where a black spot may appear at the center of an image when developing a RAW file.
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Fixed the phenomenon where a vertical line would appear in images output according to certain conditions when developing a RAW file.
Fixed other issues.

* The settings of [Color Management (Monitor profile)] and [Save Folder destination and associated external program in “Remote”] which were set in Ver.1.0.00 will be reset by the update. After the update, set these settings again. [Windows only]

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