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Are you seeing 5D2 Criss-Cross Pattern?
walter23 wrote:
If you\'re pushing your ISO 100 files enough to see that much noise you\'re probably pushing too much. I don\'t even see that with my 350D, but 1 stop is about my limit. If I\'ve got a ridiculously underexposed image (like essentially black) and I push it to try to \'rescue\', it starts to look pretty crappy, but c\'mon... you\'ve got to expose correctly in the first place. Can\'t blame the camera for that
Sometimes you have no choice but to underexpose large parts of the frame because the exposure range of the scene greatly exceeds the dynamic range of the camera. You need to decide on a balance between burnt out highlights and black shadows. This is actually very commonly a limit:
My problem with the 5D2, and the reason that I am interested in this limit is that Canon stated that the 5D2 would be as good or better than the 1Ds3. I duly traded down to a pair of 5D2\'s and sold my 1Ds3 which I had used for a year. I subsequently found that I could not achieve the same dynamic range from the 5D2 because the shadows were a mess, with quite a large scale criss-cross pattern stopping me from eking out maximum dynamic range. I am now trying to find out whether this experience is general, with a view to making an assessment about how likely Canon is to fix this, and which way to go in the future.
Mar 10, 2009 at 02:46 PM
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