Day 242: Windy Tree Line

2026-10-06Hello!More extreme ISO after yesterday's monochrome image. I think the digital noise is less obvious in this photograph because it's taken outside with oodles of sunlight, rather than the dark innards of an old piano.In this case, the noise is intentional to experiment with the limits of my camera. But I would have a hard time running noise reduction to give a clean image; post processing only works so far. In fact, the camera failed to produce a raw file of data to go with this image, only offering up a standard JPG picture. High resolution and full of metadata I need to scrub, but standard nonetheless. (The benefit of this: the image files are smaller and easier to deal with, and I can fit more of them on my storage card!)I struggle to see the real use case for such an extreme ISO. The noise is ridiculous for any reasonable scenario, and the lack of color further limits its niche. Maybe for emulating a old-timey TV screen, with its static for weak signals? Thank you for…