{"id":779,"date":"2010-01-13T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=779"},"modified":"2010-04-18T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:44:24","slug":"film-grain-vs-digital-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Film Grain vs Digital Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend anytime on a photography forum that leans towards the technical you cannot escape discussions comparing the image quality of different cameras at higher ISO settings.\u00a0 Typically at this time the threshold seems to be about 3200 ISO which is perfect because here are samples taken with an Olympus Stylus Epic and Kodak T-MAX3200 film.\u00a0 The current state of the art in digital imaging is so far ahead of film now in this particular area that I&#8217;m not sure why anyone is complaining and not just out shooting, after all there&#8217;s plenty of light just crank up the ISO.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-781\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-781\" title=\"Olympus_Epic_007\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007.jpg\" alt=\"Olympus_Epic_007\" width=\"415\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007.jpg 807w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007-688x1024.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-780\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-780\" title=\"Olympus_Epic_007-2\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007-2.jpg\" alt=\"Olympus_Epic_007-2\" width=\"415\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007-2.jpg 506w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Olympus_Epic_007-2-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>And now a digital file, while it was only ISO 800 I had made settings to\u00a0 increase the graininess in an attempt to mimic film.\u00a0 Clearly I would need to be even more aggressive with in camera processing if I hoped to approach film\u00a0 grain.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-784\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/K7_5232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-784\" title=\"_K7_5232\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/K7_5232.jpg\" alt=\"_K7_5232\" width=\"415\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/K7_5232.jpg 797w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/K7_5232-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/K7_5232-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-783\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/K7_5232-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-783\" 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