My Love, Her Portraiture and Our ISO Test

For some reasons, I start to love blogging again but not sure who gonna read it - but (again) it is not the matter. :). In this post, I will share my experiment testing Sony Alpha 700 at high ISO performance. If you do not know what is ISO, Mr. Google is just one click away.

On last weekend, I was spending my time with my girl at One Utama. We had lunch at... Ah, I couldn't think the name of it - Penang Cafe? Penang Restaurant? Penang Laksa? Sound weird. Haha. The environment there was kind of romantic feeling - not so dark with yellow (tungsten) lamp. So, I took the opportunity to test the high ISO performance of my Sony Alpha 700.

The reason why I want to test ISO performance was because I was disappointed with the result from a photoshoot session with 'forummers' a day before. The pictures are blur because of slow shutter speed. I was worry to pump ISO > 1000 (worry if the picture will be full of noise) - to compensate with not so good weather (dark) on that day.

I don't want it to happen again, I took the camera out of my bag, set the ISO to 1600 (and WB too - but I am not going to elaborate more about it because I am noob in manual WB :D). I asked my girl to pose for me and thanks god - she co-operated well. Haha. Normally, she will get annoying when I play my big gun in front of her. :D.

To suit the main objective, I played with the ISO setting - up down up down - well, these are the result of my test:







Sorry, I am in the office and I do not have the ISO info each of the picture but I believe, all of them are in between 1600 and 2500. There are no post process to reduce the noise. You can check bigger size in my flickr at http://www.flickr.com/afhamaziz if you are pixel-peeping.

Morale of the test: Do not scare/afraid/worry or whatever you call it to try high ISO of your camera. Ask yourself, which one are you prefer - a noisy picture or a blur picture? I would rather choose a noisy picture - Afham Aziz.