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Hi all.
I wouldn't normally take to posting images in this forum and I considered putting it in the test forum. Anyway, I have had a 7D now since 2012 from new. I've had a love/hate relationship with it, I love the way it works/features etc etc but I have never been happy with the image quality from it. There's something wrong somewhere, it could be me, I accept that, operator failure, or it could be equipment. I have ruled out lenses as I get similar image quality no matter what lens I use.
I know the 7d has a reputation as being a noisy camera but mine seems to be particularly bad in medium to low light but even in bright sunlight, the grittiness is still there. I've tried it all, exposing to the right, shooting in bright light, using the in camera noise reduction settings etc. I would blame myself but I get much better images, cleaner and sharper images off my Fuji X-T10. Long story short, I had a 40D before my 7, and I did well in competitions with that and I've done much better in competitions with my Fuji but always had mediocre competition results with my 7.
With all that said, it brings me to the point of this post, and this image, which I posted on FB last night, and even after significant noise redution in PS, I still feel the grittiness was too much. It looked half decent on my monitor but I viewed it on my phone and it looked awful. I could be pixel peeping too, which I also accept but I think I do have a point about my copy. I have lifted the exposure, a small amount of shadow recovery and used the sharpen tool at 7% on the face. I also adjusted levels. Apart from the mentioned PP noise reduction, that's it.
I'm not really posting this image for crit but I am looking for opinions on the noise, especially on the sky. My point is to get it out there on other monitors, ie yours and get opinions on the image quality side, from an image file point of view. ISO was 640 for this but I've seen the grittiness at much lower levels.
I'm going FF soon, it was to be the 6Dmkii but after reading the reviews about it's low iso performance and DR, I'm thinking twice now and may go the extra mile for a 5Dmkiv.
Ta much.
7D NOISE/GRAIN TEST IMAGE by Dale, on Flickr
I wouldn't normally take to posting images in this forum and I considered putting it in the test forum. Anyway, I have had a 7D now since 2012 from new. I've had a love/hate relationship with it, I love the way it works/features etc etc but I have never been happy with the image quality from it. There's something wrong somewhere, it could be me, I accept that, operator failure, or it could be equipment. I have ruled out lenses as I get similar image quality no matter what lens I use.
I know the 7d has a reputation as being a noisy camera but mine seems to be particularly bad in medium to low light but even in bright sunlight, the grittiness is still there. I've tried it all, exposing to the right, shooting in bright light, using the in camera noise reduction settings etc. I would blame myself but I get much better images, cleaner and sharper images off my Fuji X-T10. Long story short, I had a 40D before my 7, and I did well in competitions with that and I've done much better in competitions with my Fuji but always had mediocre competition results with my 7.
With all that said, it brings me to the point of this post, and this image, which I posted on FB last night, and even after significant noise redution in PS, I still feel the grittiness was too much. It looked half decent on my monitor but I viewed it on my phone and it looked awful. I could be pixel peeping too, which I also accept but I think I do have a point about my copy. I have lifted the exposure, a small amount of shadow recovery and used the sharpen tool at 7% on the face. I also adjusted levels. Apart from the mentioned PP noise reduction, that's it.
I'm not really posting this image for crit but I am looking for opinions on the noise, especially on the sky. My point is to get it out there on other monitors, ie yours and get opinions on the image quality side, from an image file point of view. ISO was 640 for this but I've seen the grittiness at much lower levels.
I'm going FF soon, it was to be the 6Dmkii but after reading the reviews about it's low iso performance and DR, I'm thinking twice now and may go the extra mile for a 5Dmkiv.
Ta much.
7D NOISE/GRAIN TEST IMAGE by Dale, on Flickr
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