High ISO Woodpecker
 

It was getting towards dusk this evening and I was messing around with auto-ISO on my 7D just to see if it works (upper limit of auto-ISO is 3200). I'd never played with it before and I had never really tried the upper limits of ISO on the camera at all. A Gila Woodpecker landed on my feeder and, even though it was kinda dark, I turned off auto-ISO and cranked the ISO to 12,800 just to see what happened. I really didn't expect much.</p>
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<p>7D Handheld, Sigma 100-300mm f/4 @ 276mm</p>
<p>1/640 sec @ f/7.1</p>
<p><b>ISO 12,800</b></p>
<p>A little brightening in LR2, sharpening in CS4, and noise reduction in Noiseware Pro</p>
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<p>It's not beautiful, but it is ISO 12,800</p>
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<p><img src="http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll249/icassell/IMG_3358-Edit.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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