Keep your digital images noise free

Digital noise is one of the biggest problems faced by digital photographers. The good news is that you can avoid it. The first thing to do is consider your ISO setting. Higher ISO settings tend to display more digital noise than digital images taken at lower ISO settings. The fix is to lower this setting to ISO 200 or ISO 100, if possible, which reduces the camera's sensitivity to light. But this isn't always the cause of noise. While avoiding noise might be impossible, here are few other suspects to consider when trying to quiet down your noisy images:

  • Underexposed images. If an image sensor can't get enough light to capture an accurate reading, it's likely to misinterpret the signal and produce noise. You ...

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