Michael, Wayne,
Regarding the anonymous claim of banding in a prior Canon 1D camera model:
"Banding destroys this camera's viability"
Michael, you wrote:
>An unsubstantiated statement by an unknown person. Why even give it the time of day? Anyone can write any rubbish on the net, with any motive.
Wayne, you wrote:
>You have any other information regarding banding? A single post about a camera thousands are using ... on Cnet no less. Personally I don't see any value to that review at all.
Very good questions. I was remiss in my original (now redacted) posting not to have mentioned that I also had done my own quick investigation *before* reading that anonymous claim.
* I found a 10.1MB CR2 file that s/o had posted on the web, downloaded it, and examined in CS3 Camera Raw 4.3.
* Though there was no camera info metadata in the file, I presumed the image was from a late-model Canon 1D camera. I could be completely wrong here, I admit.
* At high magnification, this one image clearly shows vertical banding in the deep shadow regions, similar in appearance to the banding I see occasionally in scans of underexposed film (Nikon 9000 scanner).
* Sample size = 1 for this investigation. I know, I know, not very respectable...
I admit, it was sloppy of me not to have taken the time to have included all the above info in my original posting. I apologize.
I did also carefully examine the two 1Ds Mark III raw files (that billh was very kind to have posted a link to and did not find any vertical banding. So it does seem fair to state (very provisionally) that banding may well have been a problem in at least one earlier model, and that the problem may well not exist in the current TOTL model.
Again, if anyone knows where I can find more 1Ds-III CR2 files on the net, that would be super-helpful, thanks!
Brad