Questions for you: if you use ACR/LR for RAW conversions, what ISO value is still usable in your opinion...
a) if you use ACR/LR default settings only (+25 color noise)?
b) if you use the noise removal tool from ACR/LR?
c) if you convert by ACR/LR and apply NN?
I don\'t shoot beyond ISO1600 myself. Based on this, would you recommend the 50D to me?
As I\'ve said before, I hate to reach conclusions without spending more time with the camera. Last night, I was seriously considering selling the camera but this morning, I\'m much more encouraged having tried ACR vs DPP. Detail is much much better with ACR conversions and I need to go back to DPP as see what I can do by making some adjustments there. I think ISO 1600 is useable especially if you compare by normalizing identical crops to the same size.
I shoot mostly BIF\'s (or at least that\'s my main interest) and I\'ve been very anxious for this camera. I thought the D300 would be the perfect BIF camera but it hasn\'t worked out for me primarily due to lenses. I\'m a pilot by profession and travel all over the world but I can\'t take the big telephoto lenses easily so I\'m limited to the smaller/long lenses like the 400/5.6 in Canon or the 300/4 in Nikon. I\'ve alway enjoyed much better results from the 400/5.6 or 100-400L than I get from the AF-S 300/4 with a TC. The Nikon 80-400 would be great if the focus was a little faster. The D300 is a great camera though and there are many things I prefer with that body. IQ is not one of them, especially in the telephoto range.
I hate to recommend based on my limited time with the camera but so far it\'s looking good to me. I\'ll continue to add any meaningful comparisons I find. So far, I\'m impressed with the auto WB (I like the out of camera colors better than the 1D2N), also with the AF (seems quite fast even in low light). Hope this helps
Thanks for sharing your impressions so far... Since I have an interest in BIF as well, I am curious to know what you think about the 50D\'s AI Servo tracking... From the looks of it, I think ISO 1600 will be usable, especially in good light. I don\'t think ISO 3200 will be very usable. At least not without doing some heavy PP + noise removal.
Sep 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM
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