I believe excellent high ISO noise handling is one of the strongest 1DX features which can be readily seen, i.e., it\'s not difficult to verify.
Particularly for someone like myself who is coming from the 1DsMkII/1DMkIIN level of ISO noise handling, the file cleanliness leap with 1DX is major.
Here is an example shot with handheld 1DX + 400 f/5.6 at ISO 3200.
The in-camera ISO noise suppression has been turned off, and those are SOOC JPGs with no pp other than cropping #2, and resizing both for web posting.
Granted, with a high luminance of the scene, particularly the background, this is not a very tall order, yet if I were to do the same shot with 1DMkIIN or 1DsMkII @ ISO 3200, the image could not be made presentable even with a NR application. How much better is 1DX than 1DsMkII ? I reckon close to 4 stops.
The image #3 shows one little bastard getting tired of posing for test shots so he decides to leave.
Aug 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM
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