Yes I know, again about an ISO thing. But you should forgive me, it is a new toy, and i am a bit impressed by it.

Canon R6 Low Light Test

Some of you seen my High ISO Cat photo-shoot (click here if you missed it). And the cat endured the high ISO really good. How will people do with it?

The light was a bit worse than in the cat scenario. There were few edison light bulbs some 2 meters up and dimmed to somewhere around 1/2 power. Less light would probably be the reason that colors suffered a bit but i find 12.800 usable in all web (social network) use cases. Converting it to black and white i would have no problem printing it at a decent size.

To go further, i set a faster shutter speed so i could pump the ISO higher. Got to 51.200. In black and white and used in a blog, you can see the noise, but id does not look terrible. If you open it up at 100% you can see that there is no sharpness and a lot of the details are lost.

51.200 is probably the limit of how high i would go, and would do it only when no other option is available. Starting with Canon 600d and photographing a lot in the bad lights that i could not influence i learned to embrace the noise and focus more on the emotion of the photo or capturing the moment.

And most non photographers will not say "oh you have a lot of noise in this photo", most will say "i remember exactly how i was feeling at that moment when looking at this photo"

New to photography? Struggling to understand Manual mode? Check out some tutorials for easy understanding of Manual Mode shooting.

Photography Basics: Learn Manual Mode (tutorial, Part 1)
Photography Basics: Learn Manual Mode, Shutter speed (tutorial, Part 2)
Photography Basics: Learn Manual Mode, Aperture and ISO (tutorial, Part 3)
Photography Basics: Learn Manual Mode - Thinking process (Tutorial Part 4)