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I can't offer you much help on the 5DIV questions, since I don't have one. However, I have used the 5DsR quite a bit for something similar to your subjects. In my case, I did a several year long project photographing professional classical musicians. Aside from the intensely colored lights that you encounter in your theatrical work, many of the challenges were similar — occasionally I was photographing in very dark backstage areas, stage lighting can go from moderate to intense quite quickly, sometimes different areas of the stage have differing amounts of light, and so on.
I began the project with a 5DII, and later on I acquired a 5DsR and a Fujifilm x-trans camera. For me the 5DsR worked quite well, as did both of the other cameras. I never had to go over 6400, and usually could photograph in the 1600-3200 range. Since I'm more concerned about blowing out hot spots than recovering shadows, I tended to err on the side of slight underexposure. There will be a bit of noise in the image, but with NR in post they can still be reproduced at quite large sizes. (Many of mine were used post-sized for marketing and similar purposes.)
If you were starting from scratch without either the 5DIV or the 5DsR, I would likely recommend the 5DIV, but I have to wonder how significant that difference will be at this point and whether it would be worth the added expense.
Good luck,
Dan
rabbitmountain wrote:
Hello all,
I still only have my 5DsR that I traded for a 5D and a 5D2 and some cash. It plays well to outstandingly with all of my lenses and for most of my shooting. The exception is theatre. I do realise I used to shoot theatre with those two older bodies and I've always avoided ISO extremes. But I frequently use ISO 6400 and sometimes 12800 now with the 5DsR. The problem with shooting theatre is that lights can go from bright to dim in a second and a mixture of spots and Omni/wide made my technique resort to manual exposure only.
Correctly exposed 5DsR ISO 12800 images are borderline usable. But if lights go down suddenly and some shots get underexposed, pushing 6400 but especially 12800 the files fall apart rapidly. Colour shifts to magenta and contrast gets lost.
So I was wondering how the 5D4 would do in this regard. Having heard about the 5D4 DR improvements and having tested the 1Dx2 (great sensor but way too loud), there is room for hope that this could bring improvement over the 5DsR. The gain could be even bigger when taking pushing into account.
Of course I will ask for a cps loaner soon, but I would be very interested in hearing any of your findings.
Thanks
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