D500 Noise

[YvetteH]

I have been pulling my hair out not knowing what the problem is and it is probably the settings in my camera that I have wrong. I find that even at ISO 800 I am getting noise. I shot this hummingbird this morning at ISO 800, 1/500th and f7.1 and I think it was EV -1.

The one pic is without editing and the other is with noise reduction and sharpening (of the bird) in LR. I was shooting with my 150-600 hand hold so therefore not tack sharp to start with. Any recommendations on camera settings if that is the problem. Or is this normal and one has to always do some noise reduction in post processing?

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[BrianVS]

Have you tried shots with EV0 through to EV+2/3? With other cameras: noise is more pronounced in underexposed areas. What compression mode are you using? Lossy/Compressed formats will make noise more pronounced.

Agreed- the noise in the second shot is pronounced for only being ISO800.

 

[Mike Irish]

I have also seen these noise problem with the D500 but with ISO over 1600!. I now limit the ISO to 1600 MAX.
Mike

 

[YvetteH]

Is my ISO sensitivity setting maybe wrong? I have it at 400

 

[Randy]

I couldn't make a decision based on web size images. The 2nd shot is OOF. What was the exif and metering mode

 

[Bohdan]

Is this a cropped image or straight out of the camera?

 

[YvetteH]

FIXED IT!!! I restored the camera to factory settings and it is back to normal ha ha. So I must have changed something in camera to get the noise. What a relief.

 

[Desmond]

I was just looking at dpreview on the D500 Yvette, that looks like the noise at iso 800 with noise reduction turned off.
Doing the reset probably just turned on the default noise reduction.

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[TonyW]

Although I cannot say for a fact it is quite possible that your image is actually underexposed by -1+EV due to the way raw conversion works in many raw processors and your minus 1 EV may have compounded the error.

If you want to post a raw link I can have a look just send pm

 

[Mike Delgado]

Not the best picture but shooting at ISO 2000 in low light in the rain I have no complaints about camera & ISO performance.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm F-4
F 6.3
Speed 160
ISO 2000
Shot RAW

 

[wilvoeka]

The noise in the edited shot is the result of too much sharpening(How it looks to me any way). With the image being out of focus by adding sharpening the only thing you are really sharpening is the noise.

 

[trenchmonkey]

The only noise I heard is when the Roadrunner's neck went SNAP
200-500 FTW

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[PhotogWannabe]

The only noise I heard is when the Roadrunner's neck went SNAP
200-500 FTW...

OUCH!!

 

[Tim Robinson]

Been seeing a lot comments about noise on the D500 - this was shot @ISO 3200:

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As was this:

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_5000366 by Tim Robinson, on Flickr


I've switched to a D810 for venue shooting for the most part, but I'm perplexed at the comments regarding noise over 1600 or so.... Or maybe I'm not as picky about it... :-D

 

[frdjohns]

I find that the D500, like other crop cameras, tends to have more noise than I like. I rarely allow it to go over 1600 iso, and even then require noise reduction on most shots.

 

[Louis Champan]

I tend to agree with Fred, although I do and have shot at ISO 3000 and a bit above but I do have to do some serious noise reduction. Having said that I do find that the D500 takes noise reduction quite nicely... up to a point.

 

[photogramps]

I find that the D500, like other crop cameras, tends to have more noise than I like. I rarely allow it to go over 1600 iso, and even then require noise reduction on most shots.

Have to agree with this, the D500 naturally produces a much 'grainier' effect than did my D7200 for example, bad conditions can make this a lot worse.

 

[Ann_JS]

While I don't have any experience with the D500, I am much more interested now in the subject matter of the image than I am concerned about Noise.

Color Noise is very disconcerting but I tend to disregard Luminance Noise and use very little LN reduction (mostly None!) because I have decided that I prefer the texture of the LN to the smooshed plasticity which results from Noise Reduction.

What thrills me with the newer cameras is being able to shove ISO into the stratosphere and shoot action in the dark by available light in a way which I could never do in the past.

 

[Butlerkid]

While I don't have any experience with the D500, I am much more interested now in the subject matter of the image than I am concerned about Noise.

Color Noise is very disconcerting but I tend to disregard Luminance Noise and use very little LN reduction (mostly None!) because I have decided that I prefer the texture of the LN to the smooshed plasticity which results from Noise Reduction.

What thrills me with the newer cameras is being able to shove ISO into the stratosphere and shoot action in the dark by available light in a way which I could never do in the past.

That is certainly true of the D5. The D500? I prefer to keep ISO below 1,600.

Regarding noise, to me that is one of the elements making up image quality. Today there are s/w tools that can tame noise without loosing fine details in fur and feathers. So I choose to eliminate extreme noise when I can because to me extreme noise does reduce the image quality and my enjoyment of even a superb subject.

 

[Randy]

Been seeing a lot comments about noise on the D500 - this was shot @ISO 3200:
View attachment 1583377 _5000197 by Tim Robinson, on Flickr

As was this:

View attachment 1583379 _5000366 by Tim Robinson, on Flickr


I've switched to a D810 for venue shooting for the most part, but I'm perplexed at the comments regarding noise over 1600 or so.... Or maybe I'm not as picky about it... :-D

I've seen clean 6400 shots but I've been burned on 1600 shots so I avoid it
At the size posted your shots look clean but the black BG is helping a lot