February 2026

[golunvolo]

Cherry blossomes bearing the weight of snow.

  Beautiful, delicate, the atmosphere and the color splash.

[golunvolo]

High release.

  Z9, 70-200 2.8 fl, not too shabby at iso 6400

[kasperbergholt]

Coolpix P50

[Ian Watson]

Z9, 70-200 2.8 fl, not too shabby at iso 6400

Not too shabby at all. Was that just regular noise reduction?

[golunvolo]

Not too shabby at all. Was that just regular noise reduction?

   I went to check:
In camera, high iso noise reduction "off"
                 raw compression "high efficiency" not sure if this has influence on the image's noise
                 shot in monochrome
                 everything else "off" by default

On NX Studio, contrast +1
                      straighten +6.0  (this was more tilted than usual  )
                      noise reduction "original value" so...off
                      lens correction "lateral aberration" was selected, I don't remember doing it...

      That's it. Pretty much straight out of camera. The camera has been updated to the latest firmware and the image was developed in NX Studio.

[John Geerts]

Yes i know this place not far from where i live.

The meandering river

https://www.meanderendemaas.nl/

Farming land has to go for this project!

Thanks Fons.   Yes this is in Dieden.

[Hans_S]

ALT title: "Baloon Dispenser"

Or perhaps a leaking shower dripping balloons 

[Frank Fremerey]

Coolpix P50

confusing composition

[Frank Fremerey]

   I went to check:
In camera, high iso noise reduction "off"
                 raw compression "high efficiency" not sure if this has influence on the image's noise
                 shot in monochrome
                 everything else "off" by default

On NX Studio, contrast +1
                      straighten +6.0  (this was more tilted than usual )
                      noise reduction "original value" so...off
                      lens correction "lateral aberration" was selected, I don't remember doing it...

      That's it. Pretty much straight out of camera. The camera has been updated to the latest firmware and the image was developed in NX Studio.

With the newer Nikon bodies one can never be sure if chipdesign and firmware plus NX Studio do a kind of pre-cooking concealed to the public eye. Why do I think that?

Because in many cases it is rather difficult to "cook" the Nikon RAW (NEF) in third party tools to a quality that is already present opening same file in Nikon Software.

[Ian Watson]

As an experiment, I found a photograph taken at ISO 6400 with my Zf. (I am assuming that the noise would be similar to the Z9 at a fixed output size, such as resized for NG.) Converted in Affinity Studio without any noise reduction. Just straight conversion to black-and-white, a touch of an S-curve for contrast and sharpening using the High Pass filter with the Soft Light blend mode.

[Fons Baerken]

February 9

Zf  Z40mm f/2

[Akira]

Beautiful, delicate, the atmosphere and the color splash.

Thank you, Paco!