RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: New Official 5D3 Full Samples at Canon Europe Server

Monday, March 05, 2012

New Official 5D3 Full Samples at Canon Europe Server

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Toomas Kadarpik · 682 weeks ago

Want to see RAW-s, my 5DII is noisy in shadow areas and color noise is huge even in iso 100, if this gets two stops better and the camera sensor retains the same features as 5DII it is superb. I personally hate Sony sensor highlight area handling and noise at highlight surfaces I see. So far I have not seen sensors doing both areas perfectly

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RiceHigh 110p · 682 weeks ago

Sony sensor like that used in the K-5 would have no noise in highlight areas as everything has already been clipped and details are washed out! :-o

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Raist3d · 682 weeks ago

Thats you using the K-5 because again, you were told what you can do to avoid that problem, but seems you don't even want to try! :-o

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RiceHigh 110p · 682 weeks ago

I tried every setting of my Pentax cameras since my K-m which was the first Pentax DSLR had the highlight priority option, but up till now I just can't find any DSLR on Earth that has that *trick* implemented to my satisfaction for the final IQ and results of the pictures, Canon 5D MkII inclusive.

Pentax has disabled the option by default, just think about it of why.

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Raist3d · 682 weeks ago

I love your rationale. "Pentax by default has the option disabled by default." There are many useful options they have disabled by default! It works fine. But since apparently you don't get good result from it, learn to expose to the right. Remember: the best ranked APS-C total DR camera by DXo surely doesn't have a highlight problem.

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Raist3d · 682 weeks ago

While they are better than the horrible initial shots that surfaced, they sure have tons of noise reduction. The hair in the woman model for example is a mess (one of the shots with a woman with a yellow/green/blue blouse). But I have come to realize as resolution goes up, the lens gets stressed more. These high megapixel cameras really need better lenses to show their full potential, so I think 100% pixel peeping is not fair on the camera considering the end product (a moderate size print or web).

I like the tones, but not seeing anything that would make me jealous from the K-5. The bokeh of the lenses seems pretty decent. The AF will most likely be better (one thing I would envy).

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Raist3d · 682 weeks ago

To be fair, if these are JPEGS, would be good to see results from a RAW conversion. As JPEGS they are decent.

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RiceHigh 110p · 682 weeks ago

The hair just falls outside the DoF which a FF camera has less.

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Raist3d · 682 weeks ago

No, I am not talking about a DOF issue. I am talking about a sharpness/processing issue of hair. And in that very same shot the model's face looks like it had quite a dose of Noise Reduction ending up a bit plastic. (but then that's usually Canon's JPEG engine for you).

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Spotmatic · 682 weeks ago

Sorry to say, but my K-5 definitely shows much more detail at pixel level. There's indeed tons of noise reduction going on in those MkIII shots...

However, the MkIII shots look definitely nice when resized to web sizes.

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Raist3d · 682 weeks ago

My thoughts, pretty much.

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krasitsky 35p · 682 weeks ago

Absolutely as I think =) Thanks

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Walt · 682 weeks ago

Is it just me or is the landscape shot with autum colors very fuzzy and soft? I don't think it is a depth of field issue because it looked soft everywhere not just the background. It is in bright light so why I cannot imagine that it is noise reduction, or is it? These are official photos?

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Spotmatic · 682 weeks ago

Yes, they're official as the pictures are on Canon's own servers.

The fact that the landscape shot went wrong is a strong indication of smearing details by a harsh noise reduction.

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guest · 682 weeks ago

Honestly, I think theses samples show very poor details; It's not sharp at all despite lens used at their best aperture... Just compares theses with the foveon SD1 sensor, you'll know what I mean. The noise ratio seem's ok though, but we need Raws samples to have a good idea.

My old K10D still beat it on sharpness @ base iso, outch