Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 2:56 PM -0500 7/2/09, Chris Williams wrote:
>Like Tina just mentioned, fast lenses, lower iso's.
>
>However I've yet to see anything 35mm type digital format perform as
>well as the Nikon D3/D700 past 1600iso. I've had 2nd shooters use
>the new Canon's yet still it's not as good as the Nikon when it
>comes to higher iso's. Sony uses the same CMOS sensor in their full
>frame and yet it shows more noise, something about Nikon's processor
>has them beat.
>
>And that being said, I really wish Nikon would get off the consumer
>selling train for a minute and remake some fast pro glass!! Where's
>my AF-S 50/1.2? AF-S 24/1.4?
>
>Chris
>NOLA
From 3rd party tests as well as my own comparisons the D700/D3
advantage over the 5DMk2 is around 1/2 stop as far as noise is
concerned; in any case definitely less than 1 stop. The noise has a
slightly different character, which might also make a difference
under some circumstances.
On the other hand, the Canon is 21 Mp and the Nikons 12. That also
makes a difference, and on downsampling the Canon files the noise
also goes down.
The D3x doesn't have as good noise performance as the D3, but better
than the Sony. Overall the noise performance at high ISO isn't much
different between the Canons and Nikons, especially when considering
the Mp numbers.
There are a number of things about the D700 I prefer over the 5DMkII,
but high ISO performance isn't one of them.
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