1DX Mark II underexposed and pushed 5 stops from RAW image

[rrcphoto]

I've always felt dpreview was strongly biased toward Canon. Maybe I am wrong, but when a new Nikon body comes out they make a big deal about it and test it quickly. It seems when the high megapixel Canon came out, they drug their feet with it as far as reviews.

when the 5D first came out - dpreview made a BIG deal of vignetting with full frame lenses. like it never happened before.

when the 7DII came out, all of a sudden every camera was supposed to iTR and track as well as the 1DX. the 7DII AF was measured against the 1DX... oddly enough, no one else in that class of camera was.

when the 7DII came out, a sports / birding camera was evaluated with some weird let's push shadows up 5 stops because everyone needs to do that.

supposedly on the 5DSR, EFCS via liveview isn't optimal for a landscape studio camera, even though, there is usually not a problem in using the back LCD in landscape situations.. Also EFCS is like a new thing to dpreview, even though canon has had it implemented since the 50D..

while the reviews may be all and fine.. the reviewer comments in both threads in the forums, and also in the comments section of the review tend to show a different opinion.

as far as first looks,etc - I think that all depends on the company and how quickly they get a camera with the associated NDA,etc before the announcements so they can pre-create the articles.

 

[tss68nl]

On another note, I appreciate your excitement. In some sense, you did free propaganda work for Canon and they ought to thank you for it.

Unless it was the intention of Canon to tune down the performance gain to 1.5 stops, let it trickle down the lineup, and introduce a new 1DX in 2 years with another 1.5 stops....etc. In that case he delivered Canon a huge marketing and sales headache by now.

It would find it really careless of Canon to allow pre-production models out the door hoping no-one will notice... but who knows

 

[rrcphoto]

On another note, I appreciate your excitement. In some sense, you did free propaganda work for Canon and they ought to thank you for it.

Unless it was the intention of Canon to tune down the performance gain to 1.5 stops, let it trickle down the lineup, and introduce a new 1DX in 2 years with another 1.5 stops....etc. In that case he delivered Canon a huge marketing and sales headache by now.

It would find it really careless of Canon to allow pre-production models out the door hoping no-one will notice... but who knows

canon's always had that policy with pre-production cameras. it's not a new thing.

 

[tss68nl]

Unless it was the intention of Canon to tune down the performance gain to 1.5 stops, let it trickle down the lineup, and introduce a new 1DX in 2 years with another 1.5 stops....etc. In that case he delivered Canon a huge marketing and sales headache by now.

It would find it really careless of Canon to allow pre-production models out the door hoping no-one will notice... but who knows

canon's always had that policy with pre-production cameras. it's not a new thing.

Oh really? Yeah, I know.
The point being made here, is that Canon might have a strategy to cripple their sensors/cameras deliberately and then it would be careless from Canon to not cripple the pre-productions with the risk of someone discovering the mismatch and thus ruining a 5 year marketing plan.

 

[Woody]

when the 5D first came out - dpreview made a BIG deal of vignetting with full frame lenses. like it never happened before.

Yup. That is DPReview for you.

They kept bashing Canon for the release of 35 mm full frame digital cameras... those years when Nikon and Sony had NONE.

They only stopped after Nikon release the D3.

After that, vignetting suddenly became a useful artistic tool. No kidding.

I pointed this out several times in DPReview, until Phil Askey left.

Now, they are at it again... They are not absolutely wrong, but it's strange they'll conveniently dismiss the shortcomings of other competing brands...