High ISO Samples from the Canon EOS 7D Mark II

neuroanatomist said:
lo lite said:
What should I think about the opinion of somebody who posts anonymously as a "guest" here? How's that even possible?

That's how a username shows up after the user deleted their account.

Interesting to know! From what he wrote in this thread I am under the impression he was only a troll anyway. Or do you know him and I am wrong?
 
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123Photog said:
neuroanatomist said:
dilbert said:
neuroanatomist said:
dilbert said:
Well that new autofocus system in the 7DII is doing really well - the ISO3200 picture on his web page looks completely out of focus (front focus I'd say.) ISO25600 looks similarly misfocused.

So that new AF system in the 7DII ... so advanced that it can't deal with a model that's relatively stationary...

Yes, I'm sure that's the problem. Thanks for point pointing that out, dilbert. Maybe his real problem is that he thinks the 7DII is a lens. Or you do. ::)

Are you suggesting that the AF problems aren't the cameras and are the lens instead?

So all of those people that complained about the 5D2's AF should really have been complaining about lenses intead?

No, I'm suggesting that your allegation that the 7DII's AF has a problem is baseless trolling.

well grangers examples at least show that even the 7D MK2 AF will not fix all issues... :D

Matt Granger was shooting with a 100mm L Macro IS which is known to have some focusing issues when used for portrait.
 
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lo lite said:
What should I think about the opinion of somebody who posts anonymously as a "guest" here? How's that even possible?

Banned or deleted account I think.

I think missed focus is a forgivable offense if the pictures were taken on a trade show floor, where he likely had very little time with the camera.

At web sizes, my 6d showed no noise at ISO 25600. Even ISO 51200 was acceptable, especially after some noise reduction. Heck, ISO 6400 on an EOS M that was underexposed and pulled up looks fine at web size. So yeah, full size images will be interesting once they start trickling in.
 
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Tanispyre said:
Part of me has a hard time wrapping my mind around how good digital sensors are these days in low light. I remember the good old days of taking Kodak 3200p and pushing it to 6400, or just to be crazy 12,800 and getting "usable" images. The grain on those images was so bad they were really only good for half tone printing, and small prints.

And if you wanted Color, the Fuji 1600 was about as fast as you could get, You could push it to 3200, but the results were questionable at best. To be able to take a photo nowadays at 51,200 ISO and still get a recognizable image just blows my mind.

It really is amazing. It is easy to get spoiled by high ISO shooting capabilities these days. I remember my first DSLR (30D), selecting ISO above 800 was really pushing it. These days, you can put 800 as your lowest ISO and still get great images.
 
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Agree on waiting. We need studio comparisons.
And also where no shadows are, image is clean.
See attachment of EOS M snapshot :-) (DPP export, ISO 12800, very slight crop)
Now If you use multiple exposure (stacking) and some selective denoise, you´ll have no chance of knowing if it was poor ISO 400 shot or ISO25600 "hacked" to death....
 

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I'd certainly hope for some ISO improvement after all these years. Images taken at high ISO in good lighting almost always look good. The challenge comes in low light images where blue light levels are usually weak. Since blues are the weakest, the gain is boosted a extreme amounton the blue channel, and noise becomes a issue. DPR takes sample images at low light levels using incandescent lamps. That's the real test of high ISO performance.

I reviewed some of my ISO 3200 images from my 7D, and found a lot of detail gone, so these are definitely far better.


Imagine if this were full frame! I'm sure they are holding back the good stuff for the 5D MK IV.
 
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Quest for Light said:
well i normaly don´t judge from resized JPG images.

but i doubt that 51200 on the 7D MK2 looks as grainy as ISO 400 on a 7D.

i guess his 7D has some major issues if that´s true. ::)

Wow if that is he what he is saying then he's just reading a script. That is absurd and would break all known laws of physics to be true.
 
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Memdroid said:
Wow that guy really got it together. Different exposures on almost all the the samples and misfocused too! He seriously published this as a "test", what a joke!

Doesn't anyone else find it bizarre that whoever they give the pre-release samples to for promotion never seem to be able to post even the simplest pictures up taken technically well? It's always weird random exposures, motion blur, hand shake, missed focus, etc. etc. So all the initial samples look hideous and then as soon as the cams get released even avg Joe on the street's first three shots look 100x better technically and the camera suddenly appears to work.

Why don't they ever give pre-release samples to those who are willing/able to put up technically well done photos, to actually show off the camera well, instead of making it look bad.

I guess they just want to reward certain people, people who will stick to script, have some sort of following or nepotism going for them.
 
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I looked at the images at Imaging Resource and they look just like images from any other Rebel i have owned.

I might see a difference when pixel peeping but it´s sure not breathtaking.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-7d-mark-ii/canon-7d-mark-iiGALLERY.HTM
 
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Chuck Alaimo said:
hmmm...regarding focus in that test shot...it looks like it was at the minumum focus distance...so that could account for it being a little off as most lenses get less accurate when the limits are pushed...wonder what lens was on there too....

In the video he says it was the 100mm Macro.

I think if it was minimum focus distance we would have been looking at nose boogies and not the model.
 
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PureClassA said:
Granger is a pretty solid Nikon shooter. And yes, he got to rattle off 5 shots as fast as he could in whatever light available. I doubt he had time to play with AF system setup and lord knows what mode it was on.

You wonder why Canon does this? Why not give someone a reasonable chance to produce some images that show the cam in it's best light?
 
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takesome1 said:
Are you saying that if of all the shots from the 7D II that you have seen 1 shot out of 6 that misses focus that there is no bases for a problem? :o

I am just hoping this guy was a bad photographer.

I wouldn't be worried. Pretty much all of the shots released of this nature for all the recent Canon bodies have looked a mess in one way or another. They tend to let people who are technically sloppy use the bodies first or simply rush the photographers so much they don't give them a chance to use the cam properly.

Seriously, like 80% of the initial 1DX sample shots from selected photographers they let handle the cam and post were OOF too.

Maybe Canon did mess up this new AF, but I doubt it. Not since AF is the only thing it has going for it and not after the 1D3 mess. Anyway, there is no need to worry over initial quick test shots like this, since they are always a technical mess, for whatever reason.
 
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neuroanatomist said:
Indeed. And just think what a field day those folks will have after DxO's BS comes out.

See there you go again. You mock 'DRoners' and object to being called a fanboy, but then you just flat out go around calling everyone on DxO BS even though you know that is not true. It's one thing to say that not everyone will shot a lot of high DR scenes and that some won't care, it's another thing to try to sneak in as many statements as possible to make even DxO's raw plot numbers seem like BS.
 
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