1.7. Noise Control
If you are just now entering the digital world, think of "noise" as the digital equivalent of the "grain" you worked with in film, but this time with the addition of some really ugly extra color speckles here and there.
However, when I'm shooting stock photos I want noiseless images if I can get them. When I look at a beautiful nature scene, my eyes don't see a bunch of noise floating around in that deep blue sky, so I don't want my images to have any noise either!
So far, I've found that the D300 controls noise very well when I shoot JPEGs and let the EXPEED processor do its adjustments. The other day, I was shooting images in an indoor auditorium. The speaker was half a football field away from me, so I was using a 400mm ...
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