@snacks

@snacks old picture, taken before i had the fancy mirrorless camera

@cell @snacks skill issue

@cell @snacks (the “IS” means optical image stabilization though so yea…)

@snacks @cell sensor might just have more dynamic range

@snacks @cell then if you were shooting raw you should be able to get at least similar results

@RedTechEngineer @cell @snacks i wish i could turn off the high ISO noise reduction in video mode on my a7c. there are much better filters available than what the camera can do, with motion-guided detail restoration using adjacent frames

also grain is good and only chroma noise looks really bad. that’s easy to fix in XYB or Lab colorspace with minimal perceptible loss of detail

@snacks @cell you should try using rawtherapee for processing. try adjusting exposure or using its dynamic range compression. its chroma denoiser isn’t that great though; you can probably get a better result with gmic, e.g. simple bilateral smoothing in Lab colorspace (ab channels only)

@RedTechEngineer @snacks @cell mhm 10-bit dynamic range for video recording is very nice. the a7c won’t do that (it does support s-log though), but the a7c2 does

that said the low light performance of its sensor is a lot better than what a smartphone can hope to achieve

@snacks @cell yeah maybe it was

@snacks @cell this is with +1.5 EV on the exposure slider

@snacks @cell and this is about the limit of what i can get out of that raw without further editing

@RedTechEngineer @snacks @cell optical image stabilization (in-body + lens assembly) is also a lot better especially with high focal lengths

(210mm handheld, APS-C cropping disabled for demonstration)

@RedTechEngineer @snacks @cell phone gimbal systems aren’t very expensive but they do have their drawbacks