New Gear Questions

[Pen]

thanks for the tip inkista, i did not know about that before now so thats good to know

[th83]

If it is high iso that you are looking for in a body and speed look at the 40 D 6.5 fps and better high iso than the 50D and under $1000.00 keep the nifty 50 get the 24-70l and for distance get the 100-400l lens

[inkista]

Originally Posted by th83

If it is high iso that you are looking for in a body and speed look at the 40 D 6.5 fps and better high iso than the 50D...

(sigh). Better per pixel high iso....

[th83]

Yeah that to

[inkista]

See, better per pixel high iso vs. fewer/more pixels means that the 40D doesn't really have a significant advantage to the 50D in high iso noise. Especially since the 50D actually does 3200 natively on the sensor and offers the 6400 and 12800 settings in camera. People always make this claim as if the 40D is clearly superior at higher isos than the 50D, and that's not really the case. Every example you can google up will have been done at 100% crop. To use the same example that was given in the article I linked to:

This is what something like dpreview will give you to compare high iso noise side-by-side (on the left, the Nikon D3X, on the right, the Nikon D3):



Looking at this, you immediately think, "Wow! The D3 whomps the D3x on high iso noise!!" But the scale of the images is different. You're looking at the D3x sample at higher magnification. If you actually look at the samples, with the images at the same size:



Golly, the noise performance is roughly the same! This is exactly the same type of 100% crop comparison that every review touting the 40D's "better" noise performance over the 50D uses. Just FYI.

[lferri]

Why don't you worry about noise? Do you have good noise reduction software? I currently shoot with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I use the 17-85mm f/4.0 lens and the 70-300mm f/4.0 lenses and the Speedlite 580EXII flash. I have found that shooting at an ISO of 800 creates a fair amount of noise that Aperture can't really reduce to my satisfaction (I have CS4 but haven't worked with it yet). I take a fair amount of sports photos (high school sports, equestrian events) as well as portraits. I was thinking about the Canon 7D, which I've seen a fair amount of discussion on in this thread. Would a camera like this be able to handle higher ISO's with better results? Of course, just learned the 7D's software has some bugs that Canon is working on a fix for.
Thanks!
Laurie