7D at 3200 is this sharp?

Hi I was wondering what everybody thinks of this Image Taken with my 7d at 3200 ISO ,Tamron 28-75 lens hand held at 2.8 1/30 is this sharp? and relatively noise free to you. I know my 40D could never perform this well at 3200 thanks .

Alan

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Its lost a lot of quality being reduced down to 98.62 KB. Seems a tad soft going by this example.

It's really hard to make any noise calls with the image reduced like that. I've found 3200 usable on my 7D, the first cropper I've had where I could say that.

mmm this looks soft but it seems like the camera was shook a little... but thats just me.

It looks pretty sharp for a web-rez image; a 100% crop on something like the fine engraving around the numbers should tell the tale.

1/30 hand held isn't really the best way to check for sharpness.

bacchanal wrote in post #9076686
1/30 hand held isn't really the best way to check for sharpness.

True but with the little bit of ambient light in the room and to properly expose at 3200 I had no choice thanks,

Alan

use the pod @_@;;; or a table even or something

Yes.. support the camera on something and use the self timer.. (That will prevent camera motion that can be caused by pressing the shutter button)....

Crop out old Abe's face and post just that.. As others have mentioned, when you downsample an image, you lose a lot of noise..

I've seen you website so telling you to use the pod seems meaningless advice. I think you were just using the image as a quick example, as such I think it is sharp considering being hand held. All in all I'm envious of the 7d. I could only wish to be able to reproduce images like that.

Is that all you have left after you bought the 7D?

Gotta be at least nine dollars of change here!