A good amount of objectivity emerging now, rather than a huge amount of wishfull thinking, Jeff nails it on the head, but I would say that the 7D is nearer to a 10mp camera, except at ISO 200, when it is a reasonable 15MP.
PS I have not rejected offers of help out of hand, but because I could not reallistically see from my efforts or that of others that much improvement could br made to 7D images above ISO 640. The reason is that the RAW files themselves have had too much NR done in camera to actually record enough detail.
To put is crudely, it is what is known in another field as trying to \'polish a turd\'
People are happy to just believe what they want to, be it for 1DXs or any other camera.
100% crops never lie, but up to this thread, almost no one would actually post them, hoping that showing downsampled and oversharpened images would be sufficient to show the qualities of any camera. I have been consistent in asking to see 100% crops and always when posting links to my own images showing 100% crops.
I have bben taken to task for making such a request. I also asked for 100% crops of unprocessed images and was told that no one wanted to see such images.
Conrad has done us all a favour and been very honest, with his open mindedness and request for objectivity.
I don\'t need to know what camera has produced the image, I can tell if the IQ is good or bad if I see a 100% crop, as I judge each image on its individual merits.
I am not alone in this ability, anyone can do it.
A good amount of objectivity emerging now, rather than a huge amount of wishfull thinking, Jeff nails it on the head, but I would say that the 7D is nearer to a 10mp camera, except at ISO 200, when it is a reasonable 15MP.
PS I have not rejected offers of help out of hand, but because I could not reallistically see from my efforts or that of others that much improvement could br made to 7D images above ISO 640. The reason is that the RAW files themselves have had too much NR done in camera to actually record enough detail.
To put is crudely, it is what is known in another field as trying to \'polish a turd\'
People are happy to just believe what they want to, be it for 1DXs or any other camera.
100% crops never lie, but up to this thread, almost no one would actually post them, hoping that showing downsampled and oversharpened images would be sufficient to show the qualities of any camera. I have been consistent in asking to see 100% crops and always when posting links to my own images showing 100% crops. I don\'t need to know what camera has produced the image, I can tell if the IQ is good or bad if I see a 100% crop, as I judge each image on its individual merits
I am not alone in this ability, anyone can do it.
Mike Engles
Sep 01, 2012 at 07:25 PM
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