Romy (aka liquidstone) posted a image processed from a pre-production 5D II he used on a bird shoot in the Phillipines. Just amazing his talent with the camera - just carefuully read the image parameters - 1600mm FL, ISO 3200, 1/40s and the ISO 3200 shot looks like ISO 400-800 on my 40D.
I'm certainly impressed, the claws are very sharp, and so it the branch they are wraped around. For an ISO 3200 shot through a 2X TC that's a mighty fine set of samples.
Looks great! I'm interested in seeing ISO 6400+ samples in an indoor/lowlight setting. I sold my 5D a year ago in favor of shooting large format transparencies, but I am considering the new 5Dmk2 heavily
Pixel Perfect wrote:
Romy (aka liquidstone) posted a image processed from a pre-production 5D II he used on a bird shoot in the Phillipines. Just amazing his talent with the camera - just carefuully read the image parameters - 1600mm FL, ISO 3200, 1/40s and the ISO 3200 shot looks like ISO 400-800 on my 40D.
Most of us are familiar with Pogi Romy's art and craft.
However, don't be fooled into believing that his postprocessing skills are any less than his camera/lens proficiency. It takes both to get results of that caliber.
bluetsunami wrote:
Their probably still shots from the video (shutter pressed as he was recording the bird). You get the full 21MP frame when you do this.
Yeah, that's my understanding also. Pretty cool; he claims the video is unedited.
I could care less about what it loks like at 3200. Your example looks great, but this second version better be clean at 12,800, like 3200 is on the original 5D.
tcamper wrote:
I could care less about what it loks like at 3200. Your example looks great, but this second version better be clean at 12,800, like 3200 is on the original 5D.
If the shot is taken while a video is being recorded, then the ideo feed is interrupted for some 2 seconds. As the OP claims that the video is unedited, it should be easy to have the answer.
Well that is a ringing endorsement to me. Keep in mind the qualification "at the pixel level." Because the 5D MKII is full frame and the 20D is a crop this means that noise at the picture level will be a lot better as the 5D MKII files will need a lot less magnification when printed. The difference in prints could easily be 2.5 stops better noise if the difference at the pixel level is 1 stop better.
