5DS scores at DXO **now posted**

Perio said:
neuroanatomist said:
As expected, the SoNikon fanboys will continue to turn up here like bad pennies, full of support for DxO's BS (which is an abbreviation for Biased Scores, Bad Science, and Bovine Scat, among other things).

On the top of bad science, there is conflict of interest since the release of DxO One.

Nothing like the fox who watches the hen house
 
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scyrene said:
LetTheRightLensIn said:
scyrene said:
psolberg said:
as expected, they are not really going anywhere fast. It was a rushed sensor pushed to just deliver the most pixels per unit area they could and they succeeded.

as expected, the fanboys will discredit DXO until such time as they publish a favorable outcome, then DXO will be all that matters.

as expected, real photographers will care little, and just use a tool for the job and move on. This is just a camera. Not a religion.

Generally the criticism of the company's scores seems pretty well-supported (I've not used the website much, so I can only go on the web chatter). Can you address their points rather than labelling them all 'fanboys'?

How about you provide the specifics? Where is everyone criticism all of their scores?
I only see fanboys doing that (regarding the sensor stuff that is, I have seen more reasonable people complain about their lens test scores, especially before they re-did them, there was a lot of WEIRD stuff their for lenses, even the specific details stuff not just the overall stuff)

Sure the overall sensor ratings and maybe even the overall low light sports score are questionable, but they present a ton of detailed scores too.

Huh? Every thread in which they're mentioned? Read back through this one even. I just want to hear a cogent defence of their methodology, rather than a 'critics are all fanboys' ad hominem.

And what percentage are not from someone like neuro?

List a specific claim. I don't feel like digging and wasting my time over nonsense.
 
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Don Haines said:
scyrene said:
Huh? Every thread in which they're mentioned? Read back through this one even. I just want to hear a cogent defence of their methodology, rather than a 'critics are all fanboys' ad hominem.

You want a defense of the methodology? How about this.

In the lens testing, the most heavily weighted factor is the T-stop value. This is done because everyone knows that a faster lens is better than a slower lens and this helps the lens rating metric to properly reflect that.

Since fast lenses are obviously better than slow lenses, it only makes sense that the 50F1.8 (Canon's lowest lost lens) would be rated better than the 600F4.0 II lens (Canon's most expensive lens) and fortunately, DXO numbers show this to be true.

I said regarding the sub-data on their sensor tests, not their overall sensor scores or anything at all to do with their lens scores.
 
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dilbert said:
I'm beginning to think that some people are paid to login here and comment on Canon cameras by Canon and that anything that speaks negatively about Canon and its products are therefore insulted and derided. Otherwise there's no other way to make sense of certain comments.

I think it's possible that some people will staunchly defend their platform of choice in a manner comparable to religious fundamentalism, no direct corporate affiliation is required. It could even be a neurosis.
 
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dilbert said:
psolberg said:
neuroanatomist said:
LetTheRightLensIn said:
Many of so-called SoNikon fanboys have shot Canon longer than you.
Only thing that is the same old bad penny here is you.

Sure their overall scores are a bit 'interesting' but you full well known lots of individual numbrs are not based on bad science, biased or bovine scat, but like any political operative you handily toss everything together and obfuscate while portraying yourself as the bastion of clarity, straightforwardness and all.

Sure, and we have learned members like psolberg quoting individual numbers like DR "in the mid 14's" for SoNikon sensors. Never mind that is only a mathematical determination following downsampling to 8 MP, never mind that the cameras can neither capture nor record >14-stops of DR.

Any individual or organization that doesn't publish their full methodology, that defends erroneous data and then silently corrects it months later, is conducting bad science. The problem isn't that DxO is doing these things – companies do that and much worse all the time. The problem is that DxO promote themselves as being, "...known and respected for [their] deep knowledge on the science of image processing," and even used 'image science' as part of their logo – and their science is...bad.

lol you're really butt hurt over this DXO score no? Why do you care so much? Find peace in your photography. It is not a competition or a soccer match. You've shot canon's "limited" DR for this long and clearly you're ok with the results. Don't let somebody with 2 more stops bother you. I think what you need is not more DR or better tone curves: you just need to stop making gear a religion.

I'm beginning to think that some people are paid to login here and comment on Canon cameras by Canon and that anything that speaks negatively about Canon and its products are therefore insulted and derided. Otherwise there's no other way to make sense of certain comments.
This is probably true. Canon if you are out there. I will always say good things about you to everyone if you send me a free 1DX or 5DSR.
 
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Re: 5DS scores at DXO drop **tomorrow** (i.e. 7/8/15)

bdunbar79 said:
I'm sorry, I think you missed the point. Lenses don't have DR. Do they?

Well... they can have a contrast limit so that's kind of like DR and will have an effect on actual DR.

What should have been examined, and ONLY examined, are things like sharpness, CA, etc.

all that is available, at least in comparative form rather than absolute dimensional numbers, for tested lenses for a given platform. The raw data is very useful.
 
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benperrin said:
dilbert said:
I'm beginning to think that some people are paid to login here and comment on Canon cameras by Canon and that anything that speaks negatively about Canon and its products are therefore insulted and derided. Otherwise there's no other way to make sense of certain comments.
Just like you are trolling the forum putting down anything that is Canon.

Which makes no sense if they shoot Canon.
I (overall) really enjoy using my 70D, but I don't make excuses (as a semi-technology enthusiast) it is behind the competition a bit in some sensor aspects.
I stuff up the pictures more than it's weaknesses; but I don't make excuses for where it's sensor is weak.
It takes really nice pictures I like to look at; but I don't make excuses for where it's sensor is weak.

And yes, I will continue to keep giving criticisms rather than make excuses for it like some of the fanboys seem to. DxO is about these technical measurements so if you want to talk about the camera overall, a DxO related thread is NOT the place for it.
 
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On to the actual 5ds/r sensor metrics.
nothing new, no big improvements, same surface area performance we've seen from Canon for a very long time.
The increased pixel density will certainly be of some benefit to those who need it, as it does come with a slight per-pixel improvement at base iso.
The biggest improvement, other than 51MP, is that the thing likely has more usable DR than bodies prior to the 7D2, simply by virtue of significant reductions in fixed pattern noise.

2 yrs ago I decided to use 36 million superior pixels and am glad I did not wait for this.
OTOH, I would not be disappointed with a 5ds if I didn't know what I was missing on the other side of the paddock. ;D

edit: hey, 5ds has per-pixel performance very close to that of my much-liked old 40D! :)
that's an absolute sensor performance improvement of ~1.33 stops in only 8 years.
Way to go, Canon.
 
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mlhplt said:
So they are only 1 and 2 points better at overall score than the innovation king DxO One SuperRAW Plus with its 85 points. OK DxO.

They have stated the composited DXO One files outperform the 5D3.

They do not have a single L lens in the top 300 of all lenses they've tested. I'll drop the mic there.

- A
 
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dilbert said:
Aglet said:
dilbert said:
I'm beginning to think that some people are paid to login here and comment on Canon cameras by Canon and that anything that speaks negatively about Canon and its products are therefore insulted and derided. Otherwise there's no other way to make sense of certain comments.

I think it's possible that some people will staunchly defend their platform of choice in a manner comparable to religious fundamentalism, no direct corporate affiliation is required. It could even be a neurosis.

Yes, you might be right about that and that this choice defending likely exists elsewhere in their psyche too.

And that is of course very different from claiming DR of Sonikon is the ONLY way to get anything decent enough to bother pointing a camera to anything.... ::)
 
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PureClassA said:
http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Canon-EOS-5DS-versus-Canon-EOS-5D-Mark-III-versus-DxO-ONE-SuperRAW-Plus___1008_795_1030

Nevermind. It's official. The DxO One is a better camera than the 5D Mk III. And only a mere 2% below the 5DS.

Well, Sh!t ... I gotta go return my 5DSR now.
Ohh damn, I wasn’t aware of this immense DxO One camera (no surprises there really), now my saving for that 5D3 has reached a level which means I can buy this new incredible camera immediately, decisions decisions………………….ohh wait, I have a line of existing lenses that fit a 5D3 but not a DxO One! Damn, looks like I’ll need to miss out on that superior camera ;D
 
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I think about 90% of all posts in this thread that denigrate DxOs figures refer to the (quite clearly ludicrous and biased) score of the DxO One. However, a handful of spurious figures shouldn’t detract from some interesting component scores, and while the methodology may be pseudo-scientific, so long as it is the same methodology between systems (and particularly within manufacturers) then it is useful to compare certain aspects of a sensor. FWIW, and in the limited number of systems I have had lots of experience with, I have found DxO to pretty closely resemble my own take on them. Canon never claimed the 5DS to be a giant stride in all aspects of sensor capture other than resolution, and in this regard it is a success - and this has been reflected by DxO giving it the highest score (for a Canon).
 
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Wow so much hate for DXO Mark.

I have run my own tests Nikon vs Canon as myself and my family own both types of gear, and I can replicate every result that DXO produce.

I even managed to replicate an interesting flaw in their testing, one lens showed better sharpness at f16 than all others, I replicated this and discovered that this lens did not actually stop down to F16 but was still at F11 giving the erroneous result.

I have found them to be extremely reliable, and these new figures they have posted pretty much match exactly what everyone else is saying.

For example, they say that the low light score, ie the ISO performance is behind that of the D810, but very similar to that of a 5DMKIII

DP Review example pics show exactly this.

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canon-eos-5ds-sr/5

They say the dynamic range is behind that of the D810, but improved from previous Canon cameras.
DP Review examples show the same thing.

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canon-eos-5ds-sr/7

What all these results show is that unlike Sony and Nikon, who have managed the feat of giving you more pixels and better iso and better DR all in the same full frame package, Canon have simply scaled up the 7D MK II's crop sensor with all its compromises. It is not a great leap forward in technology, and the upcoming Sony 42Mpix backlit sensor is probably going to destroy it.

An interesting point, I tested Nikon D810 with 24-70 vs Canon 5DMK II with 24-105 lens, I found that the Nikon at 70mm resolved the same as the Canon at 105mm. As a *system* this is what matters when producing a file. And that is what DXO Mark scores showed this. They also showed that the Nikon 24-70 would suffer CA in the corners, and that is what I found.

So I expect that now there is a system that has 50mpix and some great lenses, you will see Canon lenses up top with some of the best performing sharpness scores, and I think we will see the big white telephotos finally showing just how sharp they are on a sensor that can resolve all they can give.
 
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Aglet said:
2 yrs ago I decided to use 36 million superior pixels and am glad I did not wait for this.
OTOH, I would not be disappointed with a 5ds if I didn't know what I was missing on the other side of the paddock.

OTOH, there are people like Sporgon – a photographer with substantial talent (I've seen his website...and I've seen yours) – who bought and used the 36 MP Exmor along side Canon gear for some time. His three word review of Exmor: "I sold it."


dilbert said:
I'm beginning to think

Doubtful.
 
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BobHope said:
Wow so much hate for DXO Mark.

I have run my own tests

I have found them to be extremely reliable

Yes, their extremely reliable data show that the 17-40L at f/4 is as sharp in the corners as in the center. Their extremely reliable data showed that the 70-200/2.8L IS was superior to its MkII successor, and when challenged they defended that conclusion...until a year later when they silently updated their data without admitting their mistake.

I do find their measurements generally useful, as long as they are viewed with the understanding that there are glaring errors in some of their data. I find their Scores to be useless and misleading.
 
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neuroanatomist said:
ahsanford said:
PureClassA said:
OH GOOD LORD..... HERE WE FREAKIN' GO .........

It's like the editors of these websites are sleeping. DPReview and Petapixel still haven't picked up the story yet.

This will generate thousands of page views for them -- you think they'd be more on it.

- A

DxO says: "Canon delivers a 50 MP camera that delivers image quality that's just about as good as our new DxO ONE iPhone camera attachment."

Why do people read DxO website and measurements when they do not believe in them. Have not believed in them for years...
 
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