With lots of people throwing around insane high ISO numbers like 51k and speculating like on 1DX performance please enlighten me with a comparison I can wrap my head around. Note that I am only talking about RAW performance and am completely un-interested in any comparisons that involve .jpg.
I shoot a 5D II and consider the IQ at ISO 3200 very good for shooting events like comedy shows or bands playing in bars. This is my \"max\" ISO if at all possible. (for comparison, I consider my max ISO on 60D or 7D to be 1600 to get roughly equal noise performance to the 5DII at 3200) I am interested to know what cameras capture images at ISO 6400 or 12,800 with equal quality to my 5D II at ISO 3200. Will the 1D4 or the 1D3s? What about the 1DX? What about Nikon\'s current cameras or the rumored D800. Note that by equal quality I am not talking about resolution, just noise (I don\'t print large). This is the only high ISO comparison that interests me and it seems that when Canon and Nikon talk about ISO 51k and 102k they are talking about low quality noisy raw images I would never use and it is all just a marketing spec war. Please help me understand this and feel free to discuss anything related. I would love to have a \"list\" or some easy to reference equivalent like 5DII ISO 3200 = 7D ISO 1600 = 1D4 ISO 6400 or some such roughly estimated chart.
I realize of course that all of this is a gross oversimplification
With lots of people throwing around insane high ISO numbers like 51k and speculating like on 1DX performance please enlighten me with a comparison I can wrap my head around. Note that I am only talking about RAW performance and am completely un-interested in any comparisons that involve .jpg.
I shoot a 5D II and consider the IQ at ISO 3200 very good for shooting events like comedy shows or bands playing in bars. This is my \"max\" ISO if at all possible. (for comparison, I consider my max ISO on 60D or 7D to be 1600 to get roughly equal noise performance to the 5DII at 3200) I am interested to know what cameras capture images at ISO 6400 or 12,800 with equal quality to my 5D II at ISO 3200. Will the 1D4 or the 1D3s? What about the 1DX? What about Nikon\'s current cameras or the rumored D800. Note that by equal quality I am not talking about resolution, just noise (I don\'t print large). This is the only high ISO comparison that interests me and it seems that when Canon and Nikon talk about ISO 51k and 102k they are talking about low quality noisy raw images I would never use and it is all just a marketing spec war. Please help me understand this and feel free to discuss anything related. I would love to have a \"list\" or some easy to reference equivalent like 5DII ISO 3200 = 7D ISO 1600 = 1D4 ISO 6400 or some such roughly estimated chart.
I realize of course that all of this is a gross oversimplification
Please Explain Comparative High ISO Perfromace 5DII vs 5DIII RAW
Hi all,
With lots of people throwing around insane high ISO numbers like 51k and speculating like on 1DX performance please enlighten me with a comparison I can wrap my head around. Note that I am only talking about RAW performance and am completely un-interested in any comparisons that involve .jpg.
I shoot a 5D II and consider the IQ at ISO 3200 very good for shooting events like comedy shows or bands playing in bars. This is my \"max\" ISO if at all possible. (for comparison, I consider my max ISO on 60D or 7D to be 1600 to get roughly equal noise performance to the 5DII at 3200) I am interested to know what cameras capture images at ISO 6400 or 12,800 with equal quality to my 5D II at ISO 3200. Will the 1D4 or the 1D3s? What about the 1DX? What about Nikon\'s current cameras or the rumored D800. Note that by equal quality I am not talking about resolution, just noise (I don\'t print large). This is the only high ISO comparison that interests me and it seems that when Canon and Nikon talk about ISO 51k and 102k they are talking about low quality noisy raw images I would never use and it is all just a marketing spec war. Please help me understand this and feel free to discuss anything related. I would love to have a \"list\" or some easy to reference equivalent like 5DII ISO 3200 = 7D ISO 1600 = 1D4 ISO 6400 or some such roughly estimated chart.
I realize of course that all of this is a gross oversimplification
With lots of people throwing around insane high ISO numbers like 51k and speculating like on 1DX performance please enlighten me with a comparison I can wrap my head around. Note that I am only talking about RAW performance and am completely un-interested in any comparisons that involve .jpg.
I shoot a 5D II and consider the IQ at ISO 3200 very good for shooting events like comedy shows or bands playing in bars. This is my \"max\" ISO if at all possible. (for comparison, I consider my max ISO on 60D or 7D to be 1600 to get roughly equal noise performance to the 5DII at 3200) I am interested to know what cameras capture images at ISO 6400 or 12,800 with equal quality to my 5D II at ISO 3200. Will the 1D4 or the 1D3s? What about the 1DX? What about Nikon\'s current cameras or the rumored D800. Note that by equal quality I am not talking about resolution, just noise (I don\'t print large). This is the only high ISO comparison that interests me and it seems that when Canon and Nikon talk about ISO 51k and 102k they are talking about low quality noisy raw images I would never use and it is all just a marketing spec war. Please help me understand this and feel free to discuss anything related. I would love to have a \"list\" or some easy to reference equivalent like 5DII ISO 3200 = 7D ISO 1600 = 1D4 ISO 6400 or some such roughly estimated chart.
I realize of course that all of this is a gross oversimplification
Thanks!
Mike
Dec 04, 2011 at 01:54 PM
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