lol stop
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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the lens isn't great
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you're shooting at 400 ISO and the a5000 is going to show noise earlier than newer cameras and you've got a bit of noise.
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You have a bit of color noise that's making it look worse. RawTherapee is a decent tool for free, but paid programs like Capture One Pro or Lightroom will have better noise reduction (you can try increasing color noise reduction and see if that helps, just avoid luminance noise reduction as that will make the image softer)
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You are shooting at 1/60th of a second... that is a shutter speed that can cause some shake/blur which might not be so dramatic as a 1 second exposure, but it's enough that can cause the image to be a bit soft.
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You shot this image VERY wide and are cropping in substantially on a 20MP image. If you had a 100-ish mm lens you'd have far more detail at that distance and would need to crop in less.
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You shot this image VERY wide and are cropping in substantially on a 20MP image.
And they are pixel peeping at around 5x pixel magnification which will make even a small amount of noise look much worse than it would at 1:1 crop.
you are cropping an image into 800%, what do you expect? to see individual hairs?
Youtubers do that all the time to show how awesome their cameras are. Are they lying?
That is absolutely normal. You are zooming in way beyond 100%.
Yes, no, maybe?
Consider using a better lens. Move closer to your subject. Use focus magnification and a tripod. Collectively, this will improve your IQ.
Definitely a combination of lens, slow shutter speed and trying to crop a lot on a crop sensor. Definitely doesn’t have anything to do with the age of the camera. I’m still shooting on a 5DMk2 which is like 6 years older than the a5000 and those old cameras put out very sharp images. Iso 400 shouldn’t contribute much to the noise. I often have to use iso1600 and it’s not too bad.
lol this crop is wild. There is no camera/lens combo that looks good this cropped in. I would call this the wrong lens for the job rather than poor camera performance. Even for pixel peeping don’t go past 100% zoom because no one will ever look that close
Well, I'm not cropping, I'm just zooming in to look into the details.
Yea, this is a you problem, not a camera problem or even a lens problem.
The title of this post should really be, "Am I asking too much ~~of my old a5000~~ ?"