I would say that far from being a dud your 7D is pretty good. It has very few of the bright pixels that are mainly red or blue or white. The image is soft,possibly focus and does not really respond to sharpening. NR kills detail and there is very little. I made a crop to 2100 by 1400 pixels and looked at my doings at life size. Downsized to 1200 pixels it would look fine, but viewed at 100%, ?
Your previous image is more promising.You are correct in thinking that the other images that have been put up as examples, really are not comparing apples to apples, more like apples to Canonballs!
Mike Engles
Sep 01, 2012 at 05:10 PM
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