Originally posted by Dr_who good question. I believe I saw Falcon mention on his blog that there were 3 levels of NR options and it would also be interestign to see the differences between those settings as well.
I think there are many ways to influence in-camera NR. There are 16 levels of NR (level = off, low, medium*, high) x (start at iso = 200, 400, 800*, 1600) (default marked) and then the 9 levels of sharpness and fine sharpness have a big impact too. Those sharpness levels change with the mode (e.g., bright has more sharpness applied than natural; which is why I mentioned the mode in my test).
So, it may be hard to compare out-of camera JPGs across models. While the quality of in-camera noise reduction is a criterium as such (which I am less interested in) I'll more interested in comparing the noise in the RAW output.
Lightroom applies very weak noise reduction in its default setting (luminance noise 0% and color noise 25%) and I leave it there as I have never used a lower setting.
Originally posted by Ishpuini A question of a completely different nature as the ones discussed so far (or perhaps I missed it): What's you impression concerning the new strap lugs?
Oh, I've not thought about them which is a good thing! Because I hate the old design.
I think I am going to love them because I now can use a tiny carabiner to easily attach/detach a strap w/o having anything hanging off the camera. I can only hope that the paint will stay where then metal touches the body.
So far, I didn't attach a strap and lost one of two wing-shaped protectors (so, I removed the other)