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[El_DiabloDMS]

I have recently bought a D5300 with 50mm prime lens and Tamron 70-300.
No matter which lens I use, either of those or the kit lens, I'm getting high noise when zoomed in.

Is this normal for Nikon D5300??

I have tried outdoors, flash, but still the same. Is it the settings or the camera?

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[Merco_61]

What ISO did you use? What degree of zoom are the details? Could you please share the EXIF? Do you shoot in raw or jpeg? If you use raw, what converter do you use?

 

We need to know more to give advice.

[mikew]

I dont think you have a problem with your camera,if you look at the crop size IMO you are being totally unreasonable with your expectations,i dont see a noise problem as such, just a crop that is well beyond the ability of your lenses/sensor.

 

If you want to crop to that degree you need to use  raw and learn noise reduction not that it would make it any sharper.  

[TBonz]

We can certainly help improve things with the EXIF info, but it appears that you are pushing the limits of the gear you are using.  Any kind of shooting in a poorly lit gymnasium is going to cause you to use a fairly high ISO.  Throw in any kind of movement and that is going to push the limits even more.  

 

I have to agree with Mike as well - for what and where you are shooting, you are really trying to look much tighter than you need to unless you plan to enlarge them to "wall" size.  

[Snorky]

If you want to crop to that degree you need to use  raw and learn noise reduction not that it would make it any sharper.  

 

This.

[fallout666]

we need more setting or specs you used to take photo's i use to have d5300 great camera. but without know what your iso was at and f/stop and shutter speed we can only guess what causing the issue with photo. one thing you got to understand D5300 does not have low light sensor or what ever they call it. when i went to D7200 could see how well it does better in low light. 

[El_DiabloDMS]

Many thanks for the replies, here is the exif data. I was using Nikon 50mm f1.8 lens.

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[Merco_61]

I don't see much noise for this degree of magnification, but plenty of blur because of the thin DOF @f/1.8. There is some CA as well, because of the wide open aperture on the not too well-corrected 50/1.8.

 

I wonder how the same raw files would look re-processed in another raw converter? You could try one in Nikon's own free converter Capture NX-D.

 

I also wonder if you had to lift the exposure in post as f/1.8, 1/200 and ISO 400 should be underexposed in most situations indoors.

[TBonz]

I agree with Peter.  In addition, you are shooting some movement which can contribute to the problem.

[fallout666]

he also on basic tamron kit lens 70-300mm too. also what both guys said too.  also indoors so not sure if d5300 not being good in some low light setting might be issue too. since other two can touch on that. i would get that at time if did not use flash too. over time you find sweet spot. also you did what i do at times zoom in really close too. so that could be other issue with what going on too. since you see white noise when you do really close up zoom. 

[El_DiabloDMS]

I have been experimenting for the last few months, I took the advice given on here, thank you so much for the help, I have tried everything but nothing works.
The noise is so bad on this camera, most of the photos are unusable, I think it could be a fault with my camera it's so bad. The only photos I can use are at 100ISO and no bigger than 6" X 4". What I've decided to do is go back to the camera I was using before I 'upgraded' (or so I thought) to the D5300. That is the same pixel resolution but without all the noise.