Digital is Way Cool

I went down to D.C. with a couple friends on Saturday evening to photograph some sites. This image was probably the last one taken: handheld at 1/125 second at f2.8. ISO? 6400! That's right, 6400 iso. For those who understand these kinds of things, you know that it had to be fairly dark to only get 1/125 shutter speed when working with f2.8 and iso of 6400. What is remarkable is how clean the image is. I did apply some noise reduction, but still. With film I doubt you would have ever gotten these results under these conditions. Shot with the NIkon D700. Very sweet. Be sure to double click on the image to enlarge it.