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August 7, 2024
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P: "Effective ISO"

  • August 7, 2024
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I would love to have the devs create an "Effective ISO" metric that reflects not just the ISO at which an image was shot, but also the ISO with the added Exposure adjustment (E.g. an image shot at 1000 ISO but with +1 Exposure would have an Effective ISO of 2000 and with a +2 Exposure would have an Effective ISO of 4000.)

This would be particularly useful with adaptive presets. For instance, I create adaptive noise reduction presets for 1000, 4000, and 10000 ISO, but because I sometimes under-expose (due to running around at events), I have to adjust my Exposure a few stops to compensate. When I do that, I then have to guess what noise reduction preset to add. I can't help but think that it would be awesome to have an "Effective ISO" metric that the adaptive presets to calibrate to rather than the "ISO As Shot." I think it would also be useful just to kind of know more intuitively how ISO is changing as Exposure adjustments are added.

(Granted, the Effective ISO obviously changes if you adjust Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks, but even still, seems like there could be a way to thread that needle, particularly if base Exposure is what determines the Effective ISO and not the more fine-tuned adjustments.)

Even better would be if those adaptive presets adjusted noise as the Exposure sliders were adjusted, but that seems like a much more onerous thing to code.