This lens arrived 2 days before my London trip and I took it away with me coupled to a D700. It was my only lens and it was a perfect travel lens. All these photos are shot with it which shows you how versatile it is.
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Nikon 24mm 1.4
Bad Ram
Pretty rare these days but my Mac Pro has developed some bad RAM. Swapped it out for a 2GB DIMM and all’s well again.
102,400 ISO with no noise reduction
A few readers have asked for a comparison image with no noise reduction processing in Lightroom 3. Here are comparison images. LR2, LR3 with no NR and LR3 with luminance NR at 40. Click through to see them at 100%
Lightroom 3 and high ISO 102,400 noise reduction quality
Adobe’s new version of Lightroom has some serious new improvements in noise reduction. Here are 4 images at ISO 102,400 and 51,200 on a Nikon D3s processed with LR3. This is one good reason to shoot in RAW as when I first looked at these images in Lightroom 2 they were horrible. But re-processed in LR3 they’re amazing. Here are some images shot at f2.8 1/1000th at Darebin. At a stadium the lighting is good for ISO 2500 but at club grounds like Darebin it’s about 5 f-stops dimmer so LR3 makes shooting at these venues possible.
ISO 102400 examples with and without NR:
ISO 51,200 examples:
