Ellis Vener 
, Oct 28, 2009; 04:41 p.m.
Hannah Thiem, 13 others, and myself got a chance to shoot with the new Nikon D3s last Tuesday night at a dress rehearsal of The Big Apple Circus.
In the below linked gallery you will find full resolution 1000x1000 pixel crops shot at the D3s Big Apple Circus event on October 20, 2009 at all full stop ISO settings from 100 to 102,400. The final image is an uncropped view.
Exposure and processing information is included but the basics are that the camera was set for lossless 14 Bit NEF mode and High ISO noise reduction was set to "Low".
Exposures were:
ISO 100 = 1.3 seconds @ f/5.6
ISO 200 = 0.66 seconds @ f/5.6
ISO 400 = .33 second @ f/5.6
ISO 800 = 1/6th second @ f/5.6
ISO 1600 = 1/13th @ f/5.6
ISO 3200 = 1/25th @ f/5.6
ISO 6400 = 1/50th @ f/5.6
ISO 12800 = 1/100th @ f/5.6
ISO 25,600 = 1/200th @ f/5.6
ISO 51,200 = 1/400th @ f/5.6
ISO 102,400 = 1/640th @ f/5.6 ( something changed in the lighting, camera settings remained the same.)
The files were looked at in Nikon ViewNX and then sent to Photoshop for cropping, captioning, conversion to the sRGB color space and saved as level 12 (i.e. minimal) compression.
No sharpening in the NEF processing or in post processing. Active D-lighting was turned off in hte camera and D-Lighting was turned off in Nikon ViewNX. Beyond what is described above no other processing was done. The HTML Web gallery was created in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.5
photo.net won't let me post the link! Thanks! find me on facebook and I'll point you to it.
Feel free to share the link or post it in your blogs.
Ellis Vener
http://preview.tinyurl.com/Nikon-D3s-ISO-samples
http://tinyurl.com/Nikon-D3s-ISO-samples
At the moment I'm not able to find out why the original link to Ellis' site isn't being accepted, so I've temporarily disabled the tinyurl block. The first link should be a preview, a sort of "safety" built into the tinyurl system. The second should link directly to Ellis' site. -- LJ
Brian Yeung , Oct 28, 2009; 04:46 p.m.
David Haas 
, Oct 28, 2009; 04:52 p.m.
Brian -
Read the 2nd to last line of the post - PN won't post the link.... go to Ellis' Facebook page to get it.
Dave
Zach Ritter 
, Oct 28, 2009; 05:02 p.m.
Only works if you are a friend of Ellis. Drats. I am super curious to see the results.
Brooks Gelfand , Oct 28, 2009; 05:10 p.m.
It would be interesting to see the examples. BUT the D3s is a $5100 camera. Not in my wildest dreams will I ever own one.
Zach Ritter , Oct 28, 2009; 05:13 p.m.
Brooks, you don't dream wild enough. Come on, live a little.
Besides, in two years, it won't be $5100, used that is.
Lex (perpendicularity consultant) Jenkins 
, Oct 28, 2009; 05:45 p.m.
I've e-mailed Ellis for the link to see if I can squeeze it back into his original post. Photo.net's spam filters are occasionally a little aggressive and may block some useful sites. The consequences of having to deal with the usual onslaught of spammers for shoes, electronics, etc., which sometimes use clever redirects from blog links. Even tiny url is blocked now.
Steve Swinehart , Oct 28, 2009; 06:37 p.m.
Even tiny url is blocked now.
Poor Tiny, I kind of feel sorry for him... or her...
Keith Aldrich , Oct 28, 2009; 06:46 p.m.
You could always take a screen shot of the URL bar (print screen), crop it, and add upload it to your posting :D
I'd like to see the filters block that.
Keith Aldrich , Oct 28, 2009; 06:52 p.m.
