rcm123 wrote:
I believe that this has been discussed previously, but I couldn\'t locate the thread(s). I am going to Alaska this summer to photograph the brown bears at Lake Clark and I will be shooting with a 1Dx. I will have a 7D as a second body. If I were to capture an image of the same bear from the same distance with each body & 500 mm lens, then crop the full frame image so that the bear is the same size as in the 7D image - or crop both images so that the bear is the same size - will the \"quality\" of the bear image be essentially the same when printed? I would like to make large prints, e.g., 16 X 24. Thanks for any assistance with this.
7D tosses a LOT more pixels onto it, sure the 1DX pixels are higher quality, but mostly that won\'t come close to making up for it (although the bears are sort of dark and if you were shooting in winter against snow and such they might fall into the shadow realm of the captures and if you needed quite high iso as well then the 1DX result might be better in the end). If the subject falls in a reasonably mid-tone or above portion of the image I found that even at ISO3200 and 6400 the 7D tended to give better final quality than even the 5D3 (and always versus the 5D2).
Dec 30, 2012 at 05:53 PM
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