What ISO improvement is likely to be expected in an upcoming 5D3?

[Edwin Herdman]

The forum software has reduced the size of these - click on 'em to see all the "noise". Oh, and before anyone bothers, yes they're small anyway - you can take my word (or not) that they look superb printed big; and yes, not much shadow in them, but they're still in crappy light for the most part (Exif's in all of them).

These represent cases of covering up noise with random detail and JPEG posterization, to me. Can't tell much about the noise other than that it doesn't overcome these effects, and the actual information in the JPEGs, at web rez.

If you printed these exact images "big" you'd either be seeing the benefits of said posterization and the low rez, or you'd be using the original files which we don't have before us to compare with. But point taken - for web use, at least, these are fine (although the football lion shot is such that, even in the embedded size, it looks grainy).

 

[bycostello]

if the 1dx is anything to go by, it sounds like you could almost shoot in the dark!!

 

[pakosouthpark]

if the 1dx is anything to go by, it sounds like you could almost shoot in the dark!!

is there any examples out yet?

 

[dr croubie]

if the 1dx is anything to go by, it sounds like you could almost shoot in the dark!!

is there any examples out yet?

I still don't know how I feel about the 1DX. Half of me wants to believe the people who seem to say @it's perfect at 51200. But the other half looks at the only 2-stops better than 1D. Which is only a stop better than the 1Ds. Which may make it as good at a D3s/x. So i'm gonna wait and see when it's out...