Hands-on 5D High-ISO Results

[yngdiego]

Here are several pictures that I took this morning with my 70-200/2.8L IS lens and my new 5D. The only thing I changed between shots was the ISO speeds. From left to right the speeds are: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 and 3200 (ISO expansion mode). I took the 3200 image and put it through Neat Image basic settings, and wow, it looks just about as good as the 200 or 400.

The pictures are 100% crop, shot in RAW and cropped in CS2.

[KevC]

Are you sure the only thing you changed is ISO? Wouldn't some be horribly over/underexposed if you didn't compensate with shutter and/or aperture?

Looks pretty good but those results are a little confusing. Would've liked something with more colour. Anyway, the 5D looks like an awesome camera!

[yngdiego]

Sorry..should have been more accurate. Between shots I changed the ISO speed, but let the camera calculate the T/V.

[robertwgross]

It's really hard for the average viewer to make any sense out of these images, since we don't know what the original subject looked like to begin with.

In the future, if you want to shoot something like this, I suggest that you begin with some subject that is very well known to all of us here. For lack of a better one, try a Canon camera box, which is kind of black and white and red and has a known texture.

---Bob Gross---

[CyberDyneSystems]

800 Iso looks very very good.. very similar to 1 MkII.. perhaps better.
16 looks perfectly useable as well.. and I think that's about as good a 3200 i've seen.

thanks for posting this!

[Tom W]

800 Iso looks very very good.. very similar to 1 MkII.. perhaps better.
16 looks perfectly useable as well.. and I think that's about as good a 3200 i've seen.

thanks for posting this!

I've not had much luck with 3200, at least not in poor light (where else would you use it?). But this looks salvageable. I can't wait to see some comparisons with the 1D Mk II. 1600 is definately useable with a little work, and 800 looks good.

[EOSAddict]

I think its very easy to see the difference in 'grain' between the posted examples - Bob is just being grumpy again ;) Would be interesting to compatre the ecxact same shots on another body - 20D or 1dmkII - what did you have before the 5D? Be also good to see a resized full image to get a feel for how the noise affects the overall image....

[wcapald]

Lets see something a bit more exciting please! Surely with such a fantastic new piece of equipment you can find a subject which will really show off this camera!

[robertwgross]

I think its very easy to see the difference in 'grain' between the posted examples

Yes, but we don't know what the natural texture of the subject was.

---Bob Gross---

[tim]

Yes, but we don't know what the natural texture of the subject was.

The ISO100 shot should be a good clue.

[Jack_C]

Thanks for the samples.

It seems new camera are often reported to have improved high iso images, and greater DR...

The 5D looks similar to the 20d and 350d which also use digic 2.
In fact, I found with the new higher shapening settings you need turn it down to control noise.

[kram]

Do certain colours come off worse at higher ISOs? OP, can you post an uncropped resized image of the full pic at ISO100?.

[griff2]

yngdiego wrote:I took the 3200 image and put it through Neat Image basic settings, and wow, it looks just about as good as the 200 or 400 Could you post an unprocessed, full size, 3200 image?