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Originally Posted by treeve
There are conditions in low light where I would like to use the manual settings for my DSLR, to limit the effects of noise. Can anyone offer advice as to settings to eliminate the effects of low light and the sensor - I am used to dealing with film material, which was never a problem. Should I set for 9.5Mb Fine or lower res? Should I set for a different ISO?
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To reduce the effects of noise, my recommendation would be to first get the exposure correct. Underexposing tends to increase noise in the image shadow areas. The second thing is to use the lowest ISO you can while still having a sufficiently fast shutter speed to avoid camera shake or subject movement. As far as which file size setting to use, I would always advocate using the best available otherwise you are throwing information away. If you do end up with a noisy file, noise ninja or neat image can be very effective at reducing the effects.
I'm not sure what camera you are using - campacts with their smaller physical sensor dimensions are more susceptible to noise than DSLRs - with my Minolta A2, 200 ISO was about as far as I would go. Now with my Canon 20D 400ISO is fine and even 800 ISO is acceptable