Re: 5DSR Low ISO DR 1.5-2 stops better than 1DX ...
ben egbert wrote: gdanmitchell wrote:
Photography. ;-)
Just got back from a try at that, winter without snow is ugly.
I hear you.
zlatko wrote:
Ask yourself, who is debating? Who is jumping? Vast numbers of working photographers don\'t care about this debate or about 1 stop better DR at low ISO. They\'ve been working with Canon DSLRs for years and know that they get the job done. That\'s why we see so many photographers using Canon, including some of the biggest names in photography. Canon delivers great images for them, day after day, job after job. If Canon sensors were deficient, they would never have used them, or would have left Canon a long time ago. Instead, Canon met and exceeded their needs a long time ago. Those who are complaining are a vocal group whose complaints keep reverberating in the online echo chamber, but don\'t represent the many photographers who have found that Canon works just fine for them. On the one hand you have working photographers who stake their reputations and income on their images — they are extremely unlikely to jump brands because of a press release or interview with DPReview. On the other hand you have online sensor critics, many of whom are anonymous, who seem eager to show off their knowledge of sensor fabrication.
I\'d like to pin that paragraph at the start of about 15 new FM threads each week.
justruss wrote:
Canon is still the leader, but there are people jumping...
There are always a small number of people switching systems, and for a range of reasons: they got a better deal on A than B, B does some particular thing that they need for a particular project, their new employer has or gives them A instead of B, they have a new sponsorship or other relationship with B, they are the kind of people who always believe the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, they feel that A\'s or B\'s service program treated them badly once, etc.
The switches go both directions, and there are frequently switches back that get less press. (It is kind of embarrassing to loudly announce that you moved from A to B because B is hugely better than A, only to have to admit a year later that you moved back to A. That latter announcement is rarely made as loudly or with as much enthusiasm as the former.)
Again, in forums like this one — perhaps especially in this one right now — there is (how to put this gently?) a contingent of folks who say they have moved on to something else but who seem to have some kind of need to validate their decision by returning daily to repeatedly, obsessively, continuously tell the rest of us how wrong we are and how right they are. An observer not used to the dynamics of such a forum could be forgiven for imaging that a huge percentage of Canon users is seriously disaffected by Canon and has moved or is moving to another brand. The reality is much different.
Feb 10, 2015 at 09:22 AM
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