Decided to take the plunge on a 5DII a couple of weeks ago. Took it out a few nights ago and gave it a little workout. Did some 30 second exposures at iso 800. Better IQ than I had expected. Very nice color right out of the camera.

Reservoir Sunset

That's just gorgeous, Klaus!
Very cool sky and reflections.
Ya gotta stop tempting me!

Barry

That's a great shot, I love it.

Nice, very nice. Good job Klaus

Loco

Very nice shot, Klaus, and impressively smooth. Much pp to acheive this look?
My 5DII seems to be taking an eternity to arrive.

Great image Klaus. The foreground granite slab really take the eye into the shot.

Sweet shot Klaus, that lead-in is great. Obviously way too small to tell, but I'd never guess this was at 800 and 30 sec. How does the 100% look? I've got a 6 minute shot at 100 on the board now and the file is very clean. There's some color noise in the shadows that ACR easily took care of, but otherwise I'm very pleased.

The geometry in this composition is lovely, the clouds and foreground rocks is what I'm referring to I just got my 5DII today, can't wait to start using it, so far things look great!

Oh yea.... love it. I want one.... badly.

Thanks everyone !

ajkessler wrote:
Sweet shot Klaus, that lead-in is great. Obviously way too small to tell, but I'd never guess this was at 800 and 30 sec. How does the 100% look? I've got a 6 minute shot at 100 on the board now and the file is very clean. There's some color noise in the shadows that ACR easily took care of, but otherwise I'm very pleased.

Thanks AJ.
When I get home from work tonight I will post a 100% crop of the image.

Looks pretty dam good to me

Al

Hard to tell from the little jpeg, but it does look clean. And I do like the color it produced. Pretty good for a 21mp sensor. Nice and interesting exposure also Klaus.

Jim

Wow! The colours are stunning. Got to go to my wife and get the budget for a 5DII approved

Am I the only non fan-boy seeing a gradient sky?

madmax200 wrote:
Am I the only non fan-boy seeing a gradient sky?

lol, yes? Keep in mind this is an 800 px shot that's been compressed for the web...which means it's entirely worthless as any sort of rubric to judge the performance of a camera.

Looks clean and noise free. I'm not a fan of the horizon dead center but I see why you did.

Nice one Klaus. I like the strong colours and reflections
David

It's really a beautiful photograph.

madmax200 wrote:
Am I the only non fan-boy seeing a gradient sky?

Uh, of course you're seeing a gradient sky. It's lighter where the sun's going down and darker away from the horizon.

Do you mean posterized? I don't see that...

madmax200 wrote:
Am I the only non fan-boy seeing a gradient sky?

Uh, of course you're seeing a gradient sky. It's lighter where the sun's going down and darker away from the horizon.

Do you mean posterized? I don't see that... but if so that's more a matter of processing & colourspace than the camera.