7D2 low light images

These are just some quick shots I took of my daughter's band performance tonight. To say the lighting was bad would be an understatement. Very low light, and also very uneven light with lots of bright areas and lots of dark areas. I would like to get opinions on how the camera performed (Noise and Focus). Do these seem about what quality everyone else is getting? Do you see any user caused issues? All 3 pictures are at ISO 6400,f/2.8,1.250. Luminance NR setting in lightroom around 30
Shots 1 & 2, I meant to focus on my daughter (white top). Shot 3 I intentionally focused on the one in the purple.

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Looks good to me, all around. I don't think ISO 6400 on any camera natively capable of it is much of a problem. ISO just isn't much of an issue anymore.

BTW, love the tricked-out Series 70.

These look great to me. Exposure, noise, and DR all look good. Keep shooting!

@GeoKras...Just curious. What's a Series 70?

I believe he was referring to this... Although it is actually a series 80

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tim1970 wrote in post #17562781
I believe he was referring to this... Although it is actually a series 80

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He's right, very cool!

I Government Model with a firing-pin safety. Sacrilegious!

A bit OT here, but I can't stand the firing pin safety in a 1911. I actually sold my Colts because of the legal ramifications of disabling a safety feature. I picked up a Rock Island .45 for about $329, new. It is almost as sloppy and the original 1911A1. But it goes BANG every time I ask it to. I love the 1911 design. JMB was a genius. The .50 BMG (M2) and the 1911 are near perfect machines.

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GeoKras1989 wrote in post #17562841
I Government Model with a firing-pin safety. Sacrilegious!

A bit OT here, but I can't stand the firing pin safety in a 1911. I actually sold my Colts because of the legal ramifications of disabling a safety feature. I picked up a Rock Island .45 for about $329, new. It is almost as sloppy and the original 1911A1. But it goes BANG every time I ask it to. I love the 1911 design. JMB was a genius. The .50 BMG (M2) and the 1911 are near perfect machines.

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Now that just might get the job done.

rrblint wrote in post #17562905
Now that just might get the job done.

Depends on what the job is, I suppose. Home intruders? Not really helpful. If you need to reach out and touch someone, who happens to be hiding behind a concrete wall, at 2000 yards, this baby will git-r-dun! IIRC, ball ammo is 650 grains and 3750 fps at the muzzle. My neighbor owns one. The whole neighborhood knows when he is 'practicing'. I taught ground-mounted M2 for about 3 years. Amazing weapon.

I've been very pleased at how my 7D2 handles low light situations. If you can nudge that histogram over to the right at a higher ISO (assuming you've done all you can with shutter and aperture) the camera will perform very well. Remember, it's about how much light you can capture - filling those pixels with as many photons/electrons as possible will improve the signal-to-noise performance at any ISO value. ISO is just a gain applied to the signal after it has been captured, and if you are sufficiently above the noise with the base signal, you will get a pretty good image. I have done some testing at ISO16,000 and while I wouldn't use it for large prints, Lightroom could produce an entirely acceptable result for normal sized images.

I rarely shoot below ISO1600 these days (most of my work is indoor athletics) except for portrait work or events where I have more control over the subject/lighting.

As for autofocus - I've worked my way up from the original EOS 300D to the 7- and 5-series bodies and the 7D2 has easily the best AF of any camera I've owned. I shot an event last weekend which brought me 400 frames in about an hour, and I think one or two missed focus in a manner where I couldn't identify the proximate cause. There were half a dozen more which were clearly my fault, but that was it - roughly 98% hits overall. Were you using One Shot for these? They look to have focused just fine, to me.

Looks great for being a crop sensor.