After finishing dinner with a friend, I stepped outside the cafeteria and shot this scene:
Processing for the above JPEG was as follows:
- Opened the JPG in Adobe Photoshop CS3’
- Resized to 580 x 387 pixels using Bicubic (best for smooth gradients) resampling
- Saved as a JPEG at quality 12
The following equipment and settings were used (in-camera High ISO NR was turned on):
- Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
- Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
- Shooting Date/Time: 10/18/2007 9:53:46 PM
- Shooting Mode: Aperture-Priority AE
- Tv (Shutter Speed): 1/20
- Av (Aperture Value): 4.0
- Metering Mode: Evaluative Metering
- Exposure Compensation: 0
- ISO Speed: 3200
- Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
- Focal Length: 70.0 mm
- Image Quality: Fine
- Flash: Off
- White Balance Mode: Auto
- AF Mode: One-Shot AF
- Picture Style: Standard
- Sharpness: 3
- Contrast: 0
- Saturation: 0
- Color tone: 0
- Color Space: sRGB
- Drive Mode: Single-frame shooting
The shot looks reasonably sharp even at 1/20 sec, if I do say so myself — Image Stabilization on the 70-200 did great here.
The 40D was actually put into RAW plus Large / Fine JPEG mode, so I have some full-sized files to share with you (note: the RAW files were processed in Digital Photo Professional 3.1.0.0 — this is the version of the DPP that comes bundled with the 40D).
- Out of the camera JPEG — 5.2 MB
- RAW / CR2 file — 14.0 MB
- For those who haven’t installed DPP, here are the JPEGs processed from the RAW file with 9 different combinations of Luminance and Chrominance Noise Reduction slider settings and saved at the highest quality. It’s interesting to note that processed RAW files have a much more crisp appearance than the out-of-camera JPG:
- Chroma NR High, Luminance NR High — 11.3 MB
- Chroma NR High, Luminance NR Low — 12.1 MB
- Chroma NR High, Luminance NR Off — 13.0 MB
- Chroma NR Low, Luminance NR High — 11.4 MB
- Chroma NR Low, Luminance NR Low — 12.2 MB
- Chroma NR Low, Luminance NR Off — 13.1 MB
- Chroma NR High, Luminance NR High — 12.4 MB
- Chroma NR High, Luminance NR High — 13.0 MB
- Chroma NR High, Luminance NR High — 13.8 MB