[jeffreyw]

Hello everyone!

I recently bought a new Nikon d300s with a 18-200mm VR II (The latest model). A couple days back I brought it with me to the beach to take a few shots of my gf and her friends. When I came home and uploaded them to my computer and viewed them at 100% I noticed something strange in the clouds, I had A LOT of noise. I quickly checked if I accidentally bumped my ISO up or something, but no, it said ISO 200. When I examined the other picture, especially dark (underexposed) areas, they all had noise in them.

Unfortunately I am at work and haven't got any sample pictures with me, but when I mentioned noise I meant quite a lot of visible noise. I was shooting all my pictures in RAW with a high quality JPEG. The RAW file had quite a lot of noise in the picture but the JPEGs were just simply aweful.

Now I was wondering if anyone knew if it was "normal" to have quite some noise in darker areas of your picture and/or with the Nikon d300s?

Thanks in advance,
Jeffrey

P.S. most pictures were taken between 50-105 mm