When using one of the advanced shooting modes such as Handheld Night Scene, HDR Backlight Control or Multi- Shot Noise Reduction, multiple images are taken and combined within the camera to help create the best quality image based off of the shots taken.

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Similarly, the full-frame sensor enabled low-light captures that would have yielded a fair amount of noise if shot on the RX100, and much of the time, I did appreciate having such a shallow depth of field at my disposal.

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The Lumia and iPhone may look like they offer on-par image quality, but the latter device had more than its fair share of noise output, while the shot from Nokia's phone was much cleaner.

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When told Brodeur spoke about it, Clarkson laughed, insisting his shot wasn't even hard and didn't make much noise hitting off the goaltender's mask.

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In addition to beautiful still images, the Cyber-shot RX1 compact camera can capture high-quality, low-noise Full HD movie footage in all lighting conditions at a choice of 60p or 24p (progressive) frame rates.

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He tried to understand where this noise had come from, to find some explanation for it other than that Kinney had just shot this man in the chest.

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