Konablue wrote: Jeff Nolten wrote: Konablue wrote:
... If you set the 5DS/R\'s in-camera crop to a 1.6 crop then it\'s the same in the viewfinder as the 7D2 and you have more coverage of the AF points. Therefore the animal would be the same size in the viewfinder as it would be with a 7D2.
Unlike the 7D2 crop sensor, the 5DS/R can shoot in crop mode and still record a Full Frame RAW Image with the crop info appended to the file.
Really Konablue? If you set 1.6 crop mode in a 5DS you get the same view through the viewfinder as the 7D2? How does it do that? There is a zoom mechanism in the viewfinder optics? Great news if its true. I\'ll be looking through the 5DS user manual to see what it says.
Jeff Nolten, unfortunately it is not true. I read the manual and on page 154 the way it is written gave me the impression that it did increase the zoom in the viewfinder but I tried it on my 5DSR and found it doesn\'t work that way. I should have tested in my camera before posting. Since I was wrong about this I deleted my original post. Thanks for setting me straight.
In the crop modes, the rear LCD panel in live view does show the cropped version of the image. I typically shoot landscape photographs with a 4:3 aspect ratio in mind, and I most often use live view for that sort of photography, so this is very useful to me.
It would be wonderful if Canon added some indication of the cropped image margins in the viewfinder display. It should be possible since the display does overlay some similar information, such as the grid pattern, when the camera is on.
rdcny wrote:
On the other hand, while 800 iso is smooth and looks great - for me 1600 iso is on the borderline of being too grainy (noisy)...the Sony sensor (eg., the RX-1 that I owned for more than a year) did not produce images this noisy at 1600 iso.
When considering noise/grain on 5Ds and 5DsR images, do also keep in mind that when you are looking at a print rather than a 100% magnification crop the size of the noise/grain will be significantly smaller than it would be in a similar image from a lower resolution camera.
Dan
Oct 01, 2015 at 10:45 AM
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