Madam Leona at Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion

We recently returned from a trip to Walt Disney World, the first with my Nikon D810.  During that trip I wanted to test the camera’s high ISO capability.

Here is an image of Madam Leona’s floating head at Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion.  Madame Leona is located in a very dark area of the Haunted Mansion.  Capturing this image is a good test of your camera’s low light capabilities.

I took this image using my 70-200mm Nikkor set to 120mm.  Because the little Doom Buggies you ride in are moving, I needed a fast shutter speed to avoid blurring the image.  I was not worried about depth of field, so I opened up the aperture all the way.  Because I wanted to control shutter speed and aperture, I put the camera in auto-ISO mode.  I ended up with the following settings:

• ISO – 12,800
• Shutter Speed – 1/100 sec
• Aperture – f/4.0

If you enlarge the image, there is quite a bit of grain and noise.  On other hand, I never had success capturing Madam Leona using my Nikon D300.  Better a grainy image than no image.

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