decoyslikecurves
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 05:49
Hi all,
Yesterday I took delivery of a 1d mk1 off the member here "Lightstream" (who by the way did a fantastic transaction) and having gone out last night, was unable to really test it out, so this afternoon I did a first test, playing with all iso's and etc
I have to say, my pre-thoughts were that I had read a lot of things about noise being bad, banding, etc etc. I wasn't that worried about the 4mp sensor, as I know its a quality one, and MP doesn't matter unless you're printing massive.
I also have a 30d. The lens I use most is a sigma 30 f1.4 EX. Suprisingly, the lens works on the 1.3x sensor on the 1d, even though it is designed for the 1.6 crop sensors. The only drawback is very very slight vignetting, which I actually like - so thats a positive more than anything for me.
Anyway, with the sigma 30 and a nice afternoon I played around.
Needless to say, I absolutely love the camera. It feels beautiful, built awesome, everything is perfect in ergonomics. The AF is blindingly fast, it blows the 30d out of the water.
The 8fps is fun, and probably quite useful.
Heres the part about quality:
First, a little background about me: I love film. I love the way pictures look on film. I still have film rangefinders and use them when i can afford it. I'm an architecture photographer, and I'm starting to get work in photojournalism and fashion/glamour/portrait. I started in DSLRS with 350d, and went to a 30d soon after. I only shoot in raw. The 30d is a good camera, but theres always been something about it I dont like as much as I could. Its in the way the end image looks. I'm not sure what it is.
Anyway, The 1d seems to make more a film image, the noise actually looks like grain, and the detail in the shots is nothing short of tremendous!
Also, the sigma 30 1.4 seems to focus much better on the 1d, more accurately, faster, and more consistantly.
The high ISO images from a 30d have always been good, theres no doubt about that, but I think I prefer the look from the 1D. Theres something about the way the 30ds noise is - it's sort of processed and blotchy. The 1d renders them slightly grainy but retains FULL detail. (all shot raw)
As for the amount of noise in the images, the 1d trails just a little*, but the quality of the noise is better IMO, so I prefer it for personal shots (work calls for clean images so 30d all the way)
*As long as the image is exposed properly, if underexposed, say bye bye to clean noise free image
Anyway, enough opinions, surely what everyone says about the 1D's noise is true, how horrible it is about 800iso etc etc etc.
Well, have a look at these. I'm sorry they aren't too interesting, I was just testing the camera.
ISO 400, F1.6
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/01.jpg
Iso 200, F5.6
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/06.jpg
ISO 1600 f4, focus on trolleys
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/11.jpg
ISO 3200, f4.5, focus on side mirror of my car
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/12.jpg
Yesterday I took delivery of a 1d mk1 off the member here "Lightstream" (who by the way did a fantastic transaction) and having gone out last night, was unable to really test it out, so this afternoon I did a first test, playing with all iso's and etc
I have to say, my pre-thoughts were that I had read a lot of things about noise being bad, banding, etc etc. I wasn't that worried about the 4mp sensor, as I know its a quality one, and MP doesn't matter unless you're printing massive.
I also have a 30d. The lens I use most is a sigma 30 f1.4 EX. Suprisingly, the lens works on the 1.3x sensor on the 1d, even though it is designed for the 1.6 crop sensors. The only drawback is very very slight vignetting, which I actually like - so thats a positive more than anything for me.
Anyway, with the sigma 30 and a nice afternoon I played around.
Needless to say, I absolutely love the camera. It feels beautiful, built awesome, everything is perfect in ergonomics. The AF is blindingly fast, it blows the 30d out of the water.
The 8fps is fun, and probably quite useful.
Heres the part about quality:
First, a little background about me: I love film. I love the way pictures look on film. I still have film rangefinders and use them when i can afford it. I'm an architecture photographer, and I'm starting to get work in photojournalism and fashion/glamour/portrait. I started in DSLRS with 350d, and went to a 30d soon after. I only shoot in raw. The 30d is a good camera, but theres always been something about it I dont like as much as I could. Its in the way the end image looks. I'm not sure what it is.
Anyway, The 1d seems to make more a film image, the noise actually looks like grain, and the detail in the shots is nothing short of tremendous!
Also, the sigma 30 1.4 seems to focus much better on the 1d, more accurately, faster, and more consistantly.
The high ISO images from a 30d have always been good, theres no doubt about that, but I think I prefer the look from the 1D. Theres something about the way the 30ds noise is - it's sort of processed and blotchy. The 1d renders them slightly grainy but retains FULL detail. (all shot raw)
As for the amount of noise in the images, the 1d trails just a little*, but the quality of the noise is better IMO, so I prefer it for personal shots (work calls for clean images so 30d all the way)
*As long as the image is exposed properly, if underexposed, say bye bye to clean noise free image
Anyway, enough opinions, surely what everyone says about the 1D's noise is true, how horrible it is about 800iso etc etc etc.
Well, have a look at these. I'm sorry they aren't too interesting, I was just testing the camera.
ISO 400, F1.6
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/01.jpg
Iso 200, F5.6
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/06.jpg
ISO 1600 f4, focus on trolleys
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/11.jpg
ISO 3200, f4.5, focus on side mirror of my car
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/fdigital/12.jpg