Yay! Raw support!!
I will need to really put the camera through the paces this weekend.
But for now, my kids impatiently let me take a couple low light shots of them.... As before, I did comparison shots with the D750. A6300 with 50/1.8, at 1.8 and 1/80. D750 with 24-70/2.8, at 70mm, 2.8, 1/80. Creating the same depth of field, but the ISO on the D750 was about 1 stop higher.
I was testing a couple of things. First off, how does the high ISO look. The camera auto selected ISO between 2000 and 4000. On the D750, it went 3200 to 6400. In this case, even though the ISO was about 1 stop lower, the A6300 needed slightly more noise reduction. The good news, with just a tad more NR, the file quality was pretty similar. Absolutely, these files look better than jpeg. Even at ISO 4000, I'm satisfied with the results out of the A6300.
The other thing I was testing, was eye-AF with AF-C versus AF-S. AF-S did seem a bit more consistent. In the handful of images I took, every AF-S was perfectly focused. The AF-C got the eye perfect a couple of times, but also missed focus a couple of times. So I suppose for posed portraits, I might still prefer AF-S over AF-C.
Last observation, I hate the AWB of the A6300 in artificial lighting. It is very inconsistent. I didn't correct the white balance in the below photos. The AWB for my son was ok. But for my daughter, it left the scene excessively yellow, and it isn't very easy to correct. The D750 AWB was much more consistent.
So the samples:
Way too yellow, ISO 4000. But apart from the terrible AWB, the image is pretty good. If I were to correct the AWB. I am definitely happy with this as a low light, ISO 4000 shot.
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DSC00755.jpg by
Adam Brown, on Flickr
My son at ISO 2000:
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DSC00758.jpg by
Adam Brown, on Flickr
AWB is better in this shot. And ISO 2000, while not perfect, is perfectly decent.
D750 at ISO 3600:
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DSC_6456.jpg by
Adam Brown, on Flickr
Maybe the D750 image is just a tad sharper, but it's pretty close.
I'm looking forward to testing the A6300 with 70-200 outdoors, in ISO 1600 range.