Is this type of banding to be expected from this sensor...?

[JeffW35]

My first demo run tonight. I wanted to make sure the bird flew, and I KNOW this is not a camera for night aerial photography, but man that banding is TERRIBLE. I remember my Canon 5dMK2 used to be bad when pushed but this is STRAIGHT off the raw file with no editing or RAW touch-ups....

This is my first M4/3 sensor, so I want to know if this is normal....

 

[gruvpix]

What FW version are you on?
I took this tonight - iso 800, 1/10 sec, f2

not the most amazing shot but as you can see no banding

 

[Alastair]

My first demo run tonight. I wanted to make sure the bird flew, and I KNOW this is not a camera for night aerial photography, but man that banding is TERRIBLE. I remember my Canon 5dMK2 used to be bad when pushed but this is STRAIGHT off the raw file with no editing or RAW touch-ups....

This is my first M4/3 sensor, so I want to know if this is normal....

It's a little overexposed but I don't see the banding you're talking about. Are you confusing the shadows of the streetlights for banding?

 

[burlbark]

My first demo run tonight. I wanted to make sure the bird flew, and I KNOW this is not a camera for night aerial photography, but man that banding is TERRIBLE. I remember my Canon 5dMK2 used to be bad when pushed but this is STRAIGHT off the raw file with no editing or RAW touch-ups....

This is my first M4/3 sensor, so I want to know if this is normal....

It sure shows up when you open the picture and look at the night sky. Unacceptable.

 

[Alastair]

Ah! See what you mean now! You're right, unacceptable!

 

[JeffW35]

I just updated my firmware today to the latest version.

I will do more experimenting tomorrow trying different ISO and F stops. Was just curious if this happened and to get used to it, or if theres something else at play.

 

[JeffW35]

Could ALSO be the Adobe RAW converter?! I need to try JPG as well as RAW files!

 

[PrimeMotivator]

Try underexposing then bring it back in post.