NEX-3 pushed to the limit

[Ronald_H]

Yesterday I was in a local bar with a friend to listen to some live music. I took the opportunity to shoot some pics with my NEX-3. I had my fastest lens mounted, a relatively humble Nikon 50mm f1.4D. I used a Novoflex adapter. The light was close to non-existent, so I settled for f1.4 and cranked the ISO all the way up to 12800. The shot below was heavily post processed sure, but that I actually did get a result is amazing!


The Jacks, Muziekcafe Helmond, 3-Sep-2011 by Ronald_H, on Flickr

 

[dct]

Yesterday I was in a local bar with a friend to listen to some live music. I took the opportunity to shoot some pics with my NEX-3. I had my fastest lens mounted, a relatively humble Nikon 50mm f1.4D. I used a Novoflex adapter. The light was close to non-existent, so I settled for f1.4 and cranked the ISO all the way up to 12800. The shot below was heavily post processed sure, but that I actually did get a result is amazing!

I can hear the sound: Very good shot!

 

[Nikon Bob]

That photo turned out very well, you have good PP skills. Yea the Nikon 50/1.4 AFD takes a lot of knocks, not really sure why.

Bob

 

[ampguy]

very nice! Something you won't see from a Leica M!

 

[uhoh7]

How fast was your shutter? 🙂

 

[Ronald_H]

How fast was your shutter? 🙂

About 100th of a second (ish).

I also had my Nikon FM with me with Tri-x in it, still a wonderful 'look' for concert photography. But there simply was no light...

 

[porktaco]

too much noise at high iso. lol. the NEX 7 is going to be awesome.

 

[kshapero]

Simply awesome. I'm thinking the new NEX 5 will take low light shooting up another notch.

 

[loneranger]

Vow, amazing!

 

[Ronald_H]

What post-processing photoshop steps did you apply? It looks really clean and smooth to me. If I want grit, I shoot film.

I opened the RAW image in the Sony software and deselected noise reduction (I prefer not to do my noise reduction in camera).

Then I opened the image in Photoshop and resized to 1024 pixels wide. Two runs of noise reduction were applied and then a bit of sharpening.

The original is very noisy, sure, but not far off the ISO1600 quality I used to get from the Nikon D70 a few years back. With any of my other cameras I would have had no picture at all.

 

[uhoh7]

Great work, Ronald

1/100th: that is a nice speed 🙂

Why did you have to de-select the NR in the sony software?

Is that not adjustable in LR or PS?

 

[Ronald_H]

Great work, Ronald

1/100th: that is a nice speed 🙂

Why did you have to de-select the NR in the sony software?

Is that not adjustable in LR or PS?

I don't have Lightroom and I don't use RAW conversion in Photoshop. The Sony supplied SW works well enough for me.

 

[DamenS]

Brilliant - and the Nex-5n looks like it is even BETTER at high ISO by a reasonable margin; whereas unfortunately the Nex-7 seems worse 🙁