Canon 1300D lots of noise (even with low ISO)

[Robin4321]

Hi everyone,

I'm having big issues with my CANON 1300D. As the title says, I'm having a lot of noise in most of my pictures even if the ISO is at 200.

For example that picture (beside the fact that it's overexposed, it's a good example) :

There it's cropped a little bit then you can see it clearly :

It's 10 times worse than my smartphone.

It does the same thing with both my lenses so it doesn't seem to come from there.

I had the same issue before with a compact camera I bought, I resetted it and for some reason it solved the problem but there it doesn't...

At the moment I'm traveling and it's a bit frustrating to take pictures with my smartphone lol so I hope you can help me there! 🙂

[Waddizzle]

At macro distances, a variation of as little as 1/8 of inch, or 2mm, can make the difference between in focus and out of focus.  If the subject is moving in the least, then a sharp photo can be difficult.  

If you are using a tripod, then turn of Image Stabilization.  Try to manually focus with Live View, instead of using AF.  Try taking  a photo of a static object, like a coin on a table to gain a better understanding on macro photography.  

Like I said above, the depth of field at macro distances is very shallow.  An out of focus macro shot may not mean that the lens failed to focus. It usually means that the subject was outside of your depth of field.  A properly functioning lens is always in focus at some specific distance.  Making that focus distance align with your subject can be tricky.

When you are shooting action photos of live subjects, do not expect all of the shots to be "keepers".  You can expect many, if not most, to be marginal at best.  Until you get more practice, you can expect a low keeper rate with macro photography.

[Robin4321]

Ok, thanks for all the information.
I think I would like to go more for a not fixed (I don't know how you say it in english) focal length.

Would it change the sharpness a lot?
What do you think of the EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM ?

[Peter]

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@Robin4321 wrote:

Ok, thanks for all the information.
I think I would like to go more for a not fixed (I don't know how you say it in english) focal length.

Would it change the sharpness a lot?
What do you think of the EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM ?

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EF-M won´t work with your 1300D. Your mount is for EF, EF-S, MP-E and TS-E.

EF-M is for mirrorless cameras. I own EF-M 15-45/3,5-6,3 IS STM. I use it every day. Light, but a lot of CA at 15mm. On the other hand, I never have any AF variance, back focus or front focus with my 15-45 together with my mirrorless camera.

Just do what I wrote before heading out buying new things. Live View with autofocus. Live View is always exact in normal light and if you have a good subject like the spider, but slower than the AF in your viewfinder.

[Robin4321]

Hi guys,

It's been now about 2 weeks that I've realised why others' pictures always looked nicer and sharper than mine...
I discovered lightroom and it completely changed my pictures, it's crazy.

I kind of feel like this is cheating but it seems like all good photographers use that kind of software so...

I tried not to overuse it though.

Here you can see some of the pictures I took in the past few years (with that canon 1300D or with my old compact camera) :

https://www.facebook.com/Robin-photography-2001638433405179/?modal=media_composer

I would be happy to have some advises/feedbacks on how to improve if you feel like it 🙂

[ebiggs1]

Great photos are made in post editing. Not in the camera!  

 If you think LR is good just wait until you discover Photoshop.

[Robin4321]

I've known Photoshop for a long time (even if I'm not so good at using it yet) but I've only known Lightroom for 2 weeks and I like it a lot because it's really easy to make nice improvement of the picture by just a few clics.

[Waddizzle]

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@Robin4321 wrote:

I've known Photoshop for a long time (even if I'm not so good at using it yet) but I've only known Lightroom for 2 weeks and I like it a lot because it's really easy to make nice improvement of the picture by just a few clics.

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You should be seeing hardly any noise at ISO 100, though, with a 1300D, or T6.  If you are seeing noise, something is wrong.