Not much love here
I'm a big fan of Darwin's work. He's one of those photographers that makes landscape images I can stare at for long periods of time. I was pretty eager to read his take on the 7D.
I was quite surprised by the results….
From Darwin
“Of all the cameras we have ever used, we loved the handling of the Canon 7D the best. What a little sports car of a camera! We so much wanted to love this camera. But in test after test we constantly were disappointed in the quality of the files. For our purposes, landscape and nature photography shot using RAW images, the 7D just does not cut it. Darwin is definitely keeping his Rebel (a great camera for the money) for backpacking. We were so impressed with the Canon G11 that we plan to add it to our camera bags as an everyday walk around camera.”
Read More: http://darwinwiggett.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-canon-7d/
CR's Take
I'm super curious now if I'd get the same results. I'm going to give it a whirl if I get some time.
cr
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Addition: the shot is at a small aperture, say f/16.
The building pictures are taken at f8 (with a 45TSE). So diffraction isn’t the only explanation.
In this case, it may be the default processing in DPP and the absence of sharpening.
IMHO, applying capture sharpening and trying to produce the best possible files makes more sense to compare cameras.
Of course, they may be right, but so many testers show the opposite… I’m curious what Reichmann will say, he also found the beta 7D very soft.
I agree. At such a high pixel density it seems the files are very sensitive to how they are processed.
Seems to me Reichmann is too enamored of Leica to spend any more time with the 7d… ;-)
You hit the nail on the head. It’s DPP, not the 7D or diffraction effects.
I’m not 100% sure about this, but I believe they’ll look the same at the same print resolution. When you use a DLA calculator, they always as the print size.