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Sunday, January 27, 2013

6D Vs 5D3 ISO Test, 100 to 12800, Outdoor Scene



(Modelling photos taken with my Pentax Q.)

So, measurbation party again! Click on the following album and measurbate endlessly picture by picture, one by one by your oneself! ;-D


http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/RiceHigh/5Ds/6D_Vs_5D3_ISO/

Test Conditions:-

1. Camera mounted on a sturdy tripod (a giant Gitzo) and shutter was triggered via the original Canon remote cable switch;

2. Picture Style was reset to Standard, with all parameters all left at factory defaults. Other image settings such as Auto Light Optimizer and High ISO NR etc. were reset to their factory default values. Large Fine JPEGs were produced directly out of both cameras;

3. One-shot AF with 50/1.2L with Central AF point selected;

4. For ISO 100 to ISO 1600, the lens aperture was set at f/8, whilst from ISO 3200 to 12800, the lens was set to f/16 - This was particularly required with the 6D for its low maximum shutter speed of only 1/4000s;

5. Click to enlarge to images which are resized to about 4,000 pixels in width by the Photobucket server;

6. Full-sized original images are available to download per their respective picture page, nevertheless.

So, it's your take now! I won't give any observation of mine this time and will let you decide!~


Last Test:- 

Luxury 50mm Lens Fight: EF 50/1.2L Vs CZ 50/1.4ZE on 5D3

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You're a man of good taste, you've bought a Hoya HD filter, congrats :) What do you think of the exotic Kenko Zeta line ?
1 reply · active 634 weeks ago
Not really. I think I need to support Hoya as it still owns half Pentax the brand! ;-) As for the Kenko Zeta, I had really no experience with.
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phoenix15 · 634 weeks ago

Oh, you just purchased EOS 6D ? I am thinking to get this one, instead of Nikon D600. What is your opinion Rice regarding its AF?
1 reply · active 634 weeks ago
Nope. The 6D is not mine. It was borrowed from a friend of mine. :-)

Btw, unlike the D600, the 6D seems to have little bugs reported so far, although on paper the D600 seems to be better, for those specs related for taking photographs.
5d3 files are larger. That should tell you something there. ISO 12,800 looks like water color on the 6d and great on the 5d3 in comparison. 5d3 files all have consistent file size, which would indicate to me less smearing in noise reduction though that's just an observation. At base iso things look pretty close, but I definitely see more fine detail in the 5dmk3. A photographer friend has the 5dmk2 and the 6d. He commented that the 6d showed less detail, but had much improved high iso. Something to think about.
2 replies · active 550 weeks ago
Yes, your observation is correct. The NR on JPEGs applied by the 6D is more aggressive.
raw or jpeg? that is the question.....
4 replies · active 633 weeks ago
ohhhh....nm :)
JPEG as usual.
I greatly dislike canons jpeg engine. A far mor scientific test would be to shoot in raw and let everyone look at them themselves. That said I'm not sold on the 6d. I hear the 5dmk3 still has tons of shadow noise like the mk2. If this is true, my k5 isn't going to feel too threatened for a while. The d800 is appealing but will likely outresolve all but the the most expensive glass. If I had the cash I would buy a 645d in a heartbeat.
The 5D3 JPEG engine is not that bad. It is at least better than K-5's one, see these previous comparisons of mine:-

http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-5d3-vs-k-...

http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/2012/04/5d3-vs-k-5-i...

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