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Rutty on Grindsbrook Clough

Nottingham Flickrers let out for the day

Saturday was spent in the Peaks with some of the Nottingham Flickr Group. For me, the walk itself was great fun, good exercise and generally entertaining. The weather was just about overcast and dull all day, so I didn’t find that particularly inspiring as far as taking photos went. I also used too high an ISO for the day so ended up with some fairly noisy photos. I decided to travel light and leave most of my camera gear at home and just take the little Ricoh GX100. The GX100 is a lovely camera but can get quite noisy at higher ISO levels. I have already found through experimentation that I can get away with lower ISO levels in low light thanks to the image stabilization, which is very good. Anyway,the upshot of this was having to use Noise Ninja on the few shots I decided to keep and post to Flickr. Noise Ninja is pretty good and helping out when you’ve made mistakes like this, but is no substitute for doing it right in the first place!