Testing a New Camera — Panasonic FZ80D Sunsets

Today I’m going to push the Panasonic FZ80D to high ISO and handheld to present a couple of sunset images. The photo above is a JPEG straight out of the camera. The image was taken at ISO 3200, and the exposure is 1/20th of a second at f/4.4 at a focal length of 79mm (in 35mm equivalent. You can see that the image has some noise, but the image stabilization wasn’t ba for this situation. Taking the above JPEG image, cropping it, and running it through some minimal post-processing resulted in this:

Here’s a second shot of the same sunset taken at a slightly wider focal length:

Again, not bad, not great. Here’s what came out of cropping and post-processing:

I’ll have to try a similar sunset situation in RAW and see what I can do to minimize the noise without compromising the sharpness.

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