Nikon D3 – 25600 Noise Test

March 2, 2008

By Steve Kajihiro

Last night, we were at a basketball game and my friend Jeff asked me to shoot at test shot with my Nikon D3 at 25600 ISO. Here it is. The first shot is the original. I just made it to 4X6 at 72 dpi. The next photo was cropped 4X6 at 72 dpi with about 50% crop, the last shot on the botom was tight crop to show the close up noise. I did not do anything with these photos. I shot this at ISO 25600, f/6.3, at 1/500 sec. at 200mm.

Test Shot Original Test Shot with Nikon D3 Test Shot with Nikon D3 3

Written by SteveK · Filed Under Equipment Reviews, Photography

Comments

6 Responses to “Nikon D3 – 25600 Noise Test”

Jeff Faddis on March 2nd, 2008 10:30 pm

Steve, Thanks for posting these images. It is nice to finally see something from a production D3 body that is not controlled Nikon USA. Impressive indeed. I am not entirely sure that this ISO setting would be useful in a print media type situation however with that said, I think that web publishers will be overjoyed with the ability to publish correctly exposed, professionally taken images in low light. Viva the D3!!! (THIS COMING FROM A CANON GUY:0)
Steve Kajihiro on March 3rd, 2008 4:44 am

Thanks Jeff,

I will try printing the photo out in an 8X10, so we can see what it looks like in print. That almost looks better than ISO 1600 on my D2H.

Yep…D3!! is right….Nikon really came through this time.

Steve K.
Glenn Miyashiro on March 3rd, 2008 1:11 pm

Wow!! Nice camera. but my Nikon Cool Pix 4600 is a better camera I think…
SteveK on March 4th, 2008 1:20 am

Hi Glenn,

Thanks your comments. I am very glad you like your camera. and I am sure it does the job for you.

Aloha,

Steve
Kent Nishimura on June 20th, 2008 6:16 pm

if i wasnt so invested in Canon Glass, as well as having 2 1D bodies, i’d go for a D3. LOL. does seem nice to have FF @ 9fps.
Bud on October 18th, 2008 7:13 am

The Canon 5D Mark II would blow away the Nikon D3 “noise” but not the FPS