NOTE:
The image samples are 100% crops of full images. There was NO
image editing performed to any of the below crops.
Parameters used: Normal sharpness, Normal contrast and Normal
saturation.
D60
images taken from a pre-production model
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ISO
100 | 1/250s | f/8
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D30
| D60 | 1D
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ISO
200 | 1/500s | f/8
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D30
| D60 | 1D
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ISO
400 | 1/1000s | f/8
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D30
| D60 | 1D
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ISO
800 | 1/3000s | f/8
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D30
| D60 | 1D
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ISO
1600 | 1/4000s | f/8
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D30
| D60* | 1D
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*D60
patch settings: ISO 1000 | 1/3000s | f/8
My
initial analyses
- My
first impression of the D60 pre-production images is that
they are nosier than D30 and 1D production images. After
carefully viewing photographs taken from all three cameras,
I concluded that the 1D image was the cleanest at all ISO
settings and this difference was substantially evident at
ISO 800 and 1600.
- D60
iso1000 images seem to have the same noise amount and characteristics
as the D30 at iso1600.
- At
iso100 and 200, images seem to have around the same noise
amount. However, this changes at ISO 400 where the D60's
blue channel is slightly nosier than the D30's followed
by the cleaner 1D image.
- At
iso800, the D60 is again the noisiest. The 1D is much cleaner
than the D30, making it the first choice for photographers
that use this ISO setting. Canon just released the 1D
firmware 1.3.0. I hope that we will not see any more
banding in images from this otherwise excellent pro body.
