I attended a friends wedding this weekend so the evening do gave me a chance to give my new 6D a really good workout in low light to test it's high ISO performance. I have to say I was really pleasantly surprised with the results so thought I would share them here.
My approach with these shots previously was to always to shoot in AV mode, open the aperture wide open and select the highest ISO I think I can get away with (pushing the IS on the lens and my hand-holding abilities to the max). I usually found myself using an ISO of between 2000 & 3200 and this gave mixed results.
This weekend the official photographer for the wedding suggested a different approach and it worked a treat. I switched to manual, set the aperture to 2.8, the shutter to 1/100 (@85mm) and then let the ISO do it's own thing in Auto mode, which is something I've not tried before. This gave much better results even when I saw the ISO pop right up to 12,800. With a little bit of sharpening in Lightroom afterwards I was really pleased.
Needless to say the official photographer struggled to get anywhere near these results with his 500D and Tamron 28-300. He's now put the 6D on his Christmas list :)
Here's some examples (all 12,800 ISO).
My approach with these shots previously was to always to shoot in AV mode, open the aperture wide open and select the highest ISO I think I can get away with (pushing the IS on the lens and my hand-holding abilities to the max). I usually found myself using an ISO of between 2000 & 3200 and this gave mixed results.
This weekend the official photographer for the wedding suggested a different approach and it worked a treat. I switched to manual, set the aperture to 2.8, the shutter to 1/100 (@85mm) and then let the ISO do it's own thing in Auto mode, which is something I've not tried before. This gave much better results even when I saw the ISO pop right up to 12,800. With a little bit of sharpening in Lightroom afterwards I was really pleased.
Needless to say the official photographer struggled to get anywhere near these results with his 500D and Tamron 28-300. He's now put the 6D on his Christmas list :)
Here's some examples (all 12,800 ISO).
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