![]() Noise may be a fact of life, but that doesn’t mean we have to live with noisy photos. Sensor noise tends to get worse at higher temperatures, including long exposures. Sensors themselves also contribute some amount of noise from the readout and processing circuitry, mostly noticeable in the shadows. Similarly, the pixels on a sensor don’t all capture the same amount of light during exposure, the number of photons landing on one pixel isn’t exactly the same as the number landing on its neighbor. If you repeat this experiment lots of times, you’ll find that the two buckets have the same amount of water on average, but that for any given experiment, the exact amount of water in each bucket varies a bit. You place two identical buckets side by side, wait for an hour, then measure how much water each bucket holds. ![]() To understand why this is, imagine it’s raining and you’re collecting rainwater with buckets. A major source is the nature of light itself: recording light is a fundamentally statistical and noisy process, even if we had perfect cameras. There are many sources of noise in photography. Too much noise, however, can overwhelm the photo and make it hard to see clearly. A bit of noise is not an issue and can actually make a photo look more natural. ![]() In fact, we’ve been seeing noise and grain for so long that they’re part of our visual language. We’ve always had noise in some form or another, starting in the early days with film grain. Noise is an integral part of photography.
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