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Newbie Q: Noise (in Oly C-8080)???

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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

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I'm no expert. But reading this review would not cause me any loss of sleep.

 

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympusc80...80wz/page15.asp

 

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.

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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.

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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...:)

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