High ISO on a compact

[aim54x]

I was out and about tonight with Katrina, and I snapped off a few on my Fujifilm F100fd.

Setting the camera at 1600 ISO and shooting black and white I got a few keepers including this one.

[surenj]

For a compact (or even a DSLR!) ISO 1600 looks very clean. Did you do any noise reduction on this?

I note that your camera goes up to 12800! Pretty impressive for a compact made in 2008.

[aim54x]

For a compact (or even a DSLR!) ISO 1600 looks very clean. Did you do any noise reduction on this?

I note that your camera goes up to 12800! Pretty impressive for a compact made in 2008.

It is a straight out of camera and downsized for forum, so only in camera noise reduction has been used here. BTW 12800 reduces resolution to 3mp...but it is reasonably usable. This camera matches what my 2010 model Sony TX5 (with its fancy Backlit Exmor R CMOS) for low light performance. I'd hate to see what the new SuperCCD EXR models can do at high iso.....funny how someone (refer here) likes to bag Fuji as purely marketing when a compact made in 2008 can shoot at 12800 and produces a usable photo at 1600 comparable to the latest cameras of 2010.