I've seen complaints about excessive noise in what is being taken with Oly C-8080. Having just purchased a c-8080 as my first venture into anything other than point-and-shoot land picture-taking -- I won't even dain to refer to it as photography -- I was concerned by these complaints.
What is this noise that's being referred to? How bad is it? Would it justify exchanging the camera for a C-5060 (and incurring the 10% restocking fee on camera and all camera-specific accessories)?
Much obliged for any info.
Ken
I'm no expert. But reading this review would not cause me any loss of sleep.
Note: Most underwater photographers shoot at the lowest ISO level available for a variety of reasons, noise being just one of them. So when looking at the noise, look at the results at the lowest ISO level.
As soon as you want to get best results in U/W photograpy, you'll use flash ligth.
Then there is no need to increase ISO from minimum level, you'll use 50 mainly. With this setting, you will not have noise at all.
Looking at the graph it seems the noise level is flat up to 100. Any reason to use or not to use a slightly higher setting...fast fish...
-- I was concerned by these complaints.
