Dpreview: Review of the 7D2

[xps]

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9654262477/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii-review

Dpreview writes:
"If you can justify the price tag it's hard to fault Canon's new APS-C flagship. With class-leading image quality, fast operation and excellent handling the EOS 7D is everything a semi-pro model should be--and the excellent movie mode will be a welcome bonus to those that like their pictures to move. Arguably the best APS-C SLR on the market today."

 

[xps]

I am amazed, that the new 7D2 seems to have an much lesser movie mode?

Can someone verify this?

 

[ritholtz]

I think, this is first review by dpr where they showed practical DR comparison pics and 5 stop push differences. Is ability to push underexposed image correlated to dynamic range. Does it mean 7D2/70D match 5D3 DR. That is what they are implying in their review along with negligible differences between 7D2 and 70D. They are putting down Canon with D7000 comparison.

 

[DominoDude]

Hmm, I don't think I should read that review until I had a few cups of coffee and a mood change... *prepares to gnash teeth later*

 

[jrista]

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii/12


I'm happy to see the improvement in noise characteristics on the 7D II here. No vertical banding that I can see. That's extremely nice. This test demonstrates the "color blotch" on the 5D III that I see all the time. I utterly despise that...but it may be editor related. I used to integrate my astro images with DeepSkyStacker (DSS), which is a nice program, fast, does it's job reasonably well. It uses AHD, Adaptive Homogeneity-Directed demosaicing, the same as Lightroom and ACR (and an option in RawThearapy and DarkTable as well.)


I recently started integrating with PixInsights Batch Preprocessing script (BPP), and the results are considerably better. Color noise is much lower. Finer details are better rendered. Color is better, deeper. The noise takes on a cleaner, more random nature. I noticed that it does not use AHD demosaicing, instead it uses an alternative algorithm called VNG.


Anyway...there is no question that the 5D III has banding, but it may be that the horrid color blotch that I hate is not "in" the RAW data...it's more a consequence of demosaicing. If that is the case, then I truly hope Adobe catches on, and revisits the use of AHD, at the very least they could add the option to choose the demosaicing algorithm in the settings or something like that, including VNG as an option.


On a side note...DAMN! Give me that ultra clean quality noise of the D7000 any day! *drool* That's even a bit better than what I'm seeing from the NX1.

 

[ritholtz]

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii/12


I'm happy to see the improvement in noise characteristics on the 7D II here. No vertical banding that I can see. That's extremely nice. This test demonstrates the "color blotch" on the 5D III that I see all the time. I utterly despise that...but it may be editor related. I used to integrate my astro images with DeepSkyStacker (DSS), which is a nice program, fast, does it's job reasonably well. It uses AHD, Adaptive Homogeneity-Directed demosaicing, the same as Lightroom and ACR (and an option in RawThearapy and DarkTable as well.)


I recently started integrating with PixInsights Batch Preprocessing script (BPP), and the results are considerably better. Color noise is much lower. Finer details are better rendered. Color is better, deeper. The noise takes on a cleaner, more random nature. I noticed that it does not use AHD demosaicing, instead it uses an alternative algorithm called VNG.


Anyway...there is no question that the 5D III has banding, but it may be that the horrid color blotch that I hate is not "in" the RAW data...it's more a consequence of demosaicing. If that is the case, then I truly hope Adobe catches on, and revisits the use of AHD, at the very least they could add the option to choose the demosaicing algorithm in the settings or something like that, including VNG as an option.


On a side note...DAMN! Give me that ultra clean quality noise of the D7000 any day! *drool* That's even a bit better than what I'm seeing from the NX1.

Is there any banding with D7100 with similar exposure push. That is the reason why DPR compared with D7000 instead of D7100. ;D