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 p.15 #8 · Digital Medium Format / 35mm equiv difference | |
I wonder how you knew, that I will look here..
All today Canons are one metameric failure.  Funny enough, last generation was exact opposite. High ISO and video comes at high price.. Fortunately for Canon, most of their users dont care much about colors.
1Ds MK3 is pretty much "jack-of-all-trades". But banding is there, you have only about 1 eV of DR in shadows. Which is still more than previous generation, but not by much. Supposedly, its better on ISO 200 (ISO 160/320). Bit similar how some people shoot Sony A900 on ISO 320. Cant verify that as I have just ISO 100 pics (where banding is after about 1.5 eV push in LR). Banding is sorta fixable, just not great to have..
Its not perfect, but other high-mpix machines have other issues. A900 is bit noisy (well most Sony cameras simply wont do without bit of NR, except A99 on low ISO).
Only camera from Nikon that I found with "adequate" colors was D700. D3x could be nice, but it must be with custom made color profile.
Whats left, hm.. A99. Colors from most RAW converters are .. strange. It has rather high SMI (85/81), but I would say that it desperately needs good color profile. With that, it might be perfect alt camera. Thats if I could trust it. For some unexplainable reason I simply dont trust it will work or hold together for long. Strange as I have pretty much no reservations towards A900. Tho one thing that tests wont tell is that A99 is still bit noisier than one would expect.. (or I have simply different definition of "noise-less").
Except for A99, I simply dont even think about today cameras. Thanks to ISO wars (and maybe price-wars .. cheap FFs are cheap for reason today), we have whole lineups of cameras with colors that are ranging from "bit off" to "but hey, it looks like film". Some of them are close to be colorblind. Some users probably too..
Its really hard to find something with 20+ mpix, good colors, high DR, low SNR (at base ISO), reasonable low-pass filter. And ofc being FF camera.
If I list it with pros/cons
1Ds MK3:
pros - colors, resolution, low-pass, SNR, LiveView, build quality, AF
neg - DR + banding
A900:
pros - colors, resolution, build quality, DR, biggest brightest OVF in dSLRs
neutral - AF
neg - 12bit, low-pass (defeatable with deconvolution), no LV, noisy and noisy
A99:
pros - resolution, DR, 14-bit (well its Sony, it is pro ), full time LV, EVF + focus peaking
neutral - colors (need profiles), SNR (could be better, but probably not without killing colors), SLT tech, AF (sometimes ok, sometimes not)
neg - build quality (doesnt feel like 1Ds or D3 class), long term survivability of OLEDs, wobbly flash hot shoes, strange non-cooperation with flashes (maybe due being essentialy mirrorless?)
D700
pros - SNR, DR, build quality, LV (even tho Nikon way of LV.. ehm), AF
neutral - colors (but hey, still best of Nikon), low-pass (could be better)
neg - 12 mpix
5DMK2
pros - LV, resolution
neutral - colors (decent for cheaped out 1Ds MK3), SNR, build quality
neg - DR + banding, AF, sluggish FPS
D3x
pros - DR, SNR, LV, resolution, build quality, AF, OVF (best Nikon made I would say), low-pass (seriously, best low-pass ever used in dSLR)
neutrals - colors (needs profiling, after that better than any today Nikon)
negs - colors (cause they really need profiling)
and one special guest..
1D MK3
pros - DR, SNR (clean.. really clean), LV, build quality, AF, OVF, FPS (machine gun)
neutrals - low-pass is bit heavy handed (deconvolution or AMaZE demosaic or both)
negs - 10 mpix, APS-H
Rest is either too old and noisy/colorblind or new and colorblind plus mixed issues.. That said, if you nail exposure and dont want much shadow details, old 5Dc is probably better than most today Canons. Or shoot HDR, use CPLs, graduated NDs..
MFDBs are still mostly base ISO machines, with not so great SMI (tho Phase One does really decent job with profiling them and they supply those profiles with Capture One.. and those profiles can be used.. lets say in RawTherapee ). They have mostly pretty high DR, even low-res ones. Tho pushing shadows isnt that easy and whats clipped is clipped (cause its still CCD).
But ofc I would love to have Leica S.  (no thats not voice of reason)
Btw. RT has build-in color profile for 5DMK3, you should try it. Dunno why you found output of RT soft. Just make sure demosaicing is either AMaZE or DCB with improvement. Then maybe flick on Deconvolution sharpening with some low radius and high amount. And if its not sharp then, you shot it wrong. (I leave impulse noise reduction enabled, but zeroed, usually .. if you dont have hot/stuck pixels or dont overshot deconvolution, its not needed). Would love to have regular camera that actually can use RawTherapee, cause its one amazing RAW converter.. (if you shoot base ISO, NR still isnt great).
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