Why is my 5D3 so noisy???

[privatebydesign]

The light energy and wavelength are the same regardless you are shooting with a Olympus or a Canon.

Are the CFAs the same, too? Or does that not matter?

Exactly, you beat me to it, again

 

[privatebydesign]

The light energy and wavelength are the same regardless you are shooting with a Olympus or a Canon.

Are the CFAs the same, too? Or does that not matter?

The CFA can be very different, but all is about to compensate against green channel

Only if a channel histogram shows the green values higher than red or blue, like the Olympus in the link. That is not the case the vast majority of the time with Canon cameras, just look at your channel histograms, they tend to have higher red values, the way to balance that with filters would be to use a Cyan filter.

Of course you would still need to do colour corrections in post but you wouldn't clip the red channel as quickly.

 

[cayenne]

Hey,

Thanks to everyone for all the advice. I'd never heard of ETTR till this thread, and I'm gonna make sure and try to remember that next time out shooting higher ISO.

Also, I remembered while messing with these in post, that I had purchased the NIK plugins awhile back for Aperture 3, and had forgotten that includes a de-noiser...which I think I've had some success with.

Here is my take on that original image....it was pretty messed up, but I think I've done a decent job in post with it.

I tried setting up my Dropbox to have the .CR2 raw files to let folks look at, but for some reason, the raw files don't seem to make it unadulterated into the dropbox share....once there, they all show the same size (like 114K or something ridiculous). SO, I'm working to figure that out for future uses.

Anyway, here's what I was able to do with it.....comments?

(I'm editing to attach the orig to compare with it.)

TIA,

cayenne

 

[archiea]

Confucius say: "Canon 5D only as noisy as user!" ;D