Where has the post with the complaint about the 80D's IQ gone?

[ashmadux]

I've found this to certain degree with the M3. The conversion profile on both DPP and ACR is far too aggressive IMO. I have been able to solve the problem to a certain degree by tweaking the curve profile before conversion.

I have found some of the files from the 5Ds / sr that I have down loaded to have similar characteristics.

Same thing with the brittleness on sharpening, I have to make sure that there is absolutely no pre raw sharpening going on in the background. Even then the M3 can produce a brittle picture when reduced down to normal viewing size and sometimes I'm putting a 0.2 pixel gaussian blur over it to get the result I want.

I found the m3 conversions to be, well, bizzare. I still have a couple of raws i use for reference every now and then: reminds me of the 6d in terms of low sharpness, and otherwise just kind of out to lunch with color and look. I felt like my rendering post techniques through 5 other canon bodies just dont work well with it at all.

Im glad i sent it back...all 3 of them.

 

[ashmadux]

Can one get sharp images with the 80D?

I've attached a few screenshots in Lightroom where I zoomed in 300%:

Holey Moley that looks good. That is the sharpness i would expect out of ANY modern sensor + good lens combo.

That said, the low iso tonality and sharpness of my workhorse old T2i, continues to amaze me even to this day. My XSI is sharper by a good degree, but the t2i pictures just look BETTER.

 

[chrysoberyl]

I decided to post screenshots (which included the settings I was using) in order to be helpful. Settings like detail and masking if applied incorrectly will emphasize noise. Let me post another side-by-side comparison screenshot with "bad" settings to demonstrate the difference:

The screenshots work for me. Thank you.

 

[StudentOfLight]

I've never had the need for really high ISO with the 80D. I've generally needed ISO 800 or less (Except with astro where I've been experimenting with shooting at ISO 5000). Anyway, I whimsically decided to see what ISO 16,000 looks like:

Canon EOS 80D at ISO 16000 by Omesh Singh, on Flickr

Here is a 100% crop which includes the settings I used:

 

[StudentOfLight]

I forgot about the artficial light source... Initially just used the WB eyedropper. Here is a color corrected version:

Canon EOS 80D at ISO 16000 by Omesh Singh, on Flickr

 

[chrysoberyl]

I forgot about the artficial light source... Initially just used the WB eyedropper. Here is a color corrected version:

Canon EOS 80D at ISO 16000 by Omesh Singh, on Flickr

Wow! I've not tried anything over 3200 with mine. Thanks for sharing.

I'd like to see your astro shots, too.

 

[StudentOfLight]

I've posted the Astro pictures over on another thread:
http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=20392.msg638255#msg638255

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=20392.msg638433#msg638433

 

[chrysoberyl]

I've posted the Astro pictures over on another thread:
http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=20392.msg638255#msg638255

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=20392.msg638433#msg638433

I just viewed them, thanks. I may try my 70-200 the next time I have clear, dry air in a low light pollution place. And I definitely will try my Milvus 100/2.