Last night, around 1:00 AM I popped outside to try some free-hand night shooting with the Canon 50D camera. Being so early in the morning, light was basically non-existent. I’ve never shot the camera at such and extreme ISO. It’s and experiment to see what noise levels are experienced at those speeds.

There are camera body options to push the ISO to an incredible 6400 and 12800! I have no idea what the noise level would be with those settings, but the next chance I get to photograph the helicopters at night, I’m giving it a try.

For this mornings experiment, I armed myself with the 5.6f 400mm lens and ISO set to a whopping 3200, I took my best shot(s) (so to speak).