Mattbtn wrote:
Word on the street is that if you actually connect the black dots on these blown out shots, it actually spells out "Learn how to use your camera."
God damn .... the 5D II must be the worst DSLR in history .... it's terribly over-exposed and noisy as hell. I think you should return it for those reasons. Either that or we should start a thread on "How Not to Take a Picture".
Caleb Williams wrote:
In all seriousness,
This image shows them:
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On the lower left side is where I looked. Could be else where too.
Mattbtn wrote:
Word on the street is that if you actually connect the black dots on these blown out shots, it actually spells out "Learn how to use your camera."
Damn, you've given me the second best laugh of the week. It's Friday, which Improv are you book at this weekend?
davenfl wrote:
We are going to begin a panic over the inability of the camera to handle terribly blown unusable photos when shots anywhere close to normal exposure are perfect. I agree with Mattbn and Monochrome, truly laughable.
Mattbtn wrote:
Word on the street is that if you actually connect the black dots on these blown out shots, it actually spells out "Learn how to use your camera."
Hey.Underpants wrote:
It's always the cameras fault.
I started this thread in the interest of having an intelligent discussion on what I felt was a legitimate issue with the 5D Mark II. Nobody has an explanation why these black dots are there, or why they only appear exactly on the right side of blown highlights. But based on these kinds of replies, I can see this thread devolving into something quite nasty. I'm sorry I ever brought it up.
I started this thread in the interest of having an intelligent discussion on what I felt was a legitimate issue with the 5D Mark II. Nobody has an explanation why these black dots are there, or why they only appear exactly on the right side of blown highlights. But based on these kinds of replies, I can see this thread devolving into something quite nasty. I'm sorry I ever brought it up.
I've seen that on cheap canon sensor like the SD1100 IS
it might be the sensor itself
can you do some more test at different ISO to see if it changes ? or maybe shoot a different subject and try to reproduce that ?
I'm happy to take you at your word. But what was the nature of the intelligent discussion you were hoping to have? I'm guessing that about 95% of us don't have this camera (it's not even clear from your post that you have this camera), so what are we supposed to discuss? Why it's happening? First I'd like to have a better idea of what's happening, to whom, when and how often. There are people on the dp thread vowing to return their 5DII's and they haven't even received them yet! It's lunacy without a bit more data, and who's going to provide that?
Question is, why didn't Canon catch this before release?
Because there are thousand of "Beta" testers, who are willing to spend big money in order to be the first one who have it, then soon inform Canon of the new found "feature". I've watied for 2+ yrs before I pick-up my 5D, with all (I hoped) of the "features" has been found & fixed - oh yeah, with almost half the price from the
release date too.
However, thanks for making my decision of waiting to buy the 5D2 more clear now.
would be nice to have the full exif on this pic...what bothers me about this kinda testing is its biased in a negative way your intent is to set up the camera in a way to give a negative result to spread it around as a defect...I dont shoot nite scenes at ISO3200 why? you ask
NOISE duh...ISO of 100 and a longer exposure time will yield better results always...
just like with film..
Hi, im looking at this hi res photo you posted, but I dont see any black dots, not even in the lower left corner you mentioned, I see color noise, red, purple ect but im not seeing black dots, can you help me to see what your seeing.
I shot some night scenes with my 5D2 last night at ISO25600... I'm looking over my pictures carefully right now and don't see any black dots. I'll try to take some over-exposed shots tonight and see what I find.
