Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's been said before I tend to agree. Nikon's noise looks more like film grain when compared to Canon. I have to clean up Canon noise more than I do Nikon when I'm editing. Not allot but it is noticeable when you're going through 3,000 images. The D3x was not made for high iso like the D3. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" Subject: Re: [Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon CA and Leica > 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. > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information