Sony A6700 How usable is ISO 20,000?

[FowlersFreeTime]

At my daughter's school Christmas play I just had to catch this moment where she's sitting with her uncle watching another grade's performance. I was just free scrolling that ISO dial without even looking at the values and now I realize that this image, at ISO 20,000, is actually not as bad as I thought! However, in full disclosure this is after ON1 denoise.

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 17.0 mm
• ƒ/2.7999999523163
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 20000

 

[Richard A]

Noise reduction is pretty amazing these days...

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

That is Brilliant! And a very nice pic.

Would you disclose, for interest, how it looks with no, or ordinary, noise reduction?

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

That is Brilliant! And a very nice pic.

Would you disclose, for interest, how it looks with no, or ordinary, noise reduction?

I'll upload an unedited version when I get home from work today

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Straight from the camera:

• ILCE-6700
• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 17.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 20000

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

That's pretty clean! If I'd known that an A6700 could do that I might have avoided going full-frame!

the ON1 has brought out (or recreated, is it AI?) the face detail very nicely, but the original is excellent. Thanks for posting