Noise Test of Nikon cameras D50, D80 y D200

 

I believe that it has been interesting to make a noise test (also proposal by some friends of mine) of the cameras Nikon D50, D80 and D200 and comparing between them. They are cameras that represent a great sector of Nikon users, understanding levels from beginners, advanced and the first step professional. Since the noise in Nikon DSLR cameras can consider it worthless even to 400 ISO, the test has been made for ISO 800 and 1600, and I have obviated ISO 3200 since it is little used by its laborious restitution. The three cameras were put under the same conditions, that is to say, the factory settings, matricial exposure, incandescent white balance, RAW and photo mode in Program.

The illumination was a simple low consumption living room bulb , of the one which, obviously, I ignore its color temperature, so the white balance of each camera made its particular interpretation of this bulb incandescence (well, that light resembles an incandescent one a lot). Naturally, the pictures were made at night and it was the only source of light.

The speeds oscillated between 1/4 of second for ISO 800 and 1/8 for ISO 1600, and the apertures  between a f4 and a f5, and  was necessary the use of tripod and automatic shutter.

The images were opened   with Capture NX, reopened in Photoshop CS as TIFF, enlarged to 100%, cropped and saved for Web, without another process. My personal opinion is that if you are not going to do very large prints, A3 or A2, the three cameras are perfectly usable in ISO 800 and with a little more reservations in ISO 1600, although if the photographic occasion deserves it, any ISO is valid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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