Shot my first job with it on Wednesday.
I need to make shure I have not got rose coloured glasses on, being a new camera I can start seeing WOW in the images. Right now I'm thinking I can see more robust natural colour with an increased ability to recover highlight detail and more detail given more separation to objects so more depth. As I say it might be Rose coloured glasses syndrome.
Kevin.
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No , I reckon there is something in that. Used mine in a dimly lit boiler room the other day . the colour and DR really holds all the way to 3200asa , which is very clean for that speed. much better than I thought it would be despite looking at online samples. In fact I did some shots on a tripod as well at 200 asa and really had to look hard at 100% on screen to see the difference.
I did a commercial portrait shoot with studio flash the next day and didn't really have to do much computer work. With the 1ds2 it needs more saturation and contrast ( possibly due to a slightly bigger dynamic range than the mk 3 at 100 - 400 asa ) applied .
I'm still struggling with the handling changes but the live view is a definite plus for composition. why isn't there a grid in the viewfinder as well ? the Kodak 14n had one. I'm also using the live view button as the mirror up button - not sure that was the intention but it is convenient.
The down load speeds to computer seemed relatively slow compared to the mk 2 firewire. I went down to the local electronics store and bought a 5 metre active usb extension cable which solved that problem very nicely.
21mp is all good , but comparing to my relatively ancient 22mp 132c Imacon and antidiluvian ELX and CF lenses, the fine detail crispness isn't quite there - probably the AA filter , still the Canon is very good indeed.
But yes - maybe we are getting over the new digital camera syndrome. I feel I could have lived with the mk 2 for a while yet ( just shows what a good camera that one is / was )
