Circular Ice Rink in St Andrews Square

            It looks a bit wider at one side than the other in this photo, but that's just an artefact of the wide angle lens (8mm). It was taken after sunset when there was still enough skylight to add a little fill to the dark shadows between the artificial lighting. Not quite enough, because the dynamic range between the floodlit rink and the rest required quite a bit of shadow lift to see any detail at all in the shadows. Consequently the noise in the image is a lot worse than you'd normally expect from ISO 4000.

In fact it's "well known" in some of the on-line camera forums that this is the kind of shot you simply can't take with with a Sony A77. Firstly because it's a crop sensor camera, and there simply aren't any decent wide angle lenses for crop sensor cameras. Secondly because the A77 has such terribly noisy images that some people are physically sick when the ISO is raised above 800 ASA, let alone doing shadow lift at ISO 4000.

Original: DSC03277RWNRX

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Taken on: December 1, 2014

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Sets appears in: • Xmas fun fair & market 2014

Groups appears in: • Edinburgh • Edinburgh Style more » • British Seasons & Seasonal Celebrations • Sony SLT A77 II&I + A65 « less

Camera: Sony SLT-A77V, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, 8mm (=12mm), ISO 4000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony SLT-A77V
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	8mm (35mm equivalent: 12mm)
ISO:	4000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Contrast:	Low
Saturation:	Low
Sharpness:	Soft
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Image Data Converter
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