Boxing: 7D, iso 6400

SnapLocally

I took these on Saturday, my 3rd boxing event this month so far using my 7D:

















There's even more pics here from this event: http://snaplocally.com/21310/angell

ian408

Looks nice. Maybe a little bump for the colors?

SUMGUY

6400! I have been to scared to go past 1000 with a D300 untill yesterday, I shot at 2000. Do you know how much difference there is between the 7D and D300 in terms of noise?

These look ok for such a high ISO. Are you still using the same lense off the 40D?

cheers, Scott

SnapLocally

7D vs D300- As I may have mentioned before, a friend of mine is a D300 shooter, and I was always impressed on how clean his iso 3200 shots looked compared to my 40D. Compared to the D300... I just read in PopPhoto that the 7D produces less noise at 6400 than the D300s produces at iso 3200, and that the Canon -at iso 12,800- outresolved the D300s at iso 100, but they "deem the noise Unacceptable at that high sensitivity". As far as the actual D300 (without the "s") I'm not sure. I wouldn't be afraid to shoot at iso 3200 if I were you- if the shots are exposed properly it tends to minimize the noise.

As far as my lenses go, yes, I still have the same line up. The 7D has the same 1.6x crop factor that the 40D has, so no "upgrades" were necessary.

chest2tank

Holy moley! Where's all the noise?!? Great captures. Expressions are great, and you captured the action perfectly.

Pretty please, change your accompanying font????

Foques

great captures.

expression in the last shot mad me laugh, though.

KipCox

Nice shots.

From everything I've been told the 7D at that high of an ISO should be noisy, guess it depends on the shutter speed and light. Be interested to know what lens and setting you were using. I am seriously in the market for a "new" Canon body to replace my XSi and have been leaning towards a used 1D MKIII (the fames per sec and lack of issues related to buffering) rather than deal with the 7D's supposed noise.

Agree with whoever asked about the color...little flat but some love in LR could take care of that.

EZPZ

SnapLocally wrote:

I took these on Saturday, my 3rd boxing event this month so far using my 7D:

There's even more pics here from this event: http://snaplocally.com/21310/angell

Well done. Number 1 is a great shot. No flash? Even better.

SnapLocally

KC- I was using a used Sigma prime.

As far as I'm concerned the only iso that has "noise issues" is 12,800, and even then the shots have detail and are quite usable with a little noise reduction in pp.

"Flat colors"- I suppose I could bump up the saturation a bit, but I'd rather not embellish on the colors considering the environment I was shooting in. Part of the trade off in shooting at higher iso's is the fact that there wasn't a whole lot of light to begin with, and as such there's going to be less contrast and duller colors. That, and it would also "enhance" the brightly lit background even more so, detracting from the main focus of the shots -the action- even further.

By contrast, here's a well lit venue shot at iso 2000:

KipCox

SnapLocally wrote:

Love the spray on this one. What were the shutter, ISO, and f-stop on this one? I shoot hockey at 1/800, 1600, f3.5 and usually still a half-stop to stop underexposed and real grainy with my 450D. Not comparing that camera to your 7D results, just trying to determine if a 7D would be good enough for my immediate purposes versus getting a lightly used 1DMKIII.

KipCox

BTW...how is the 7D in saving pics to card? My 450D gets about 3 or 4 pics then starts buffering like a maddog then 1 pic every half second or second.

I shoot RAW versus JPEG because I got to have the lossless editing capability because of the noise at the 1600 range. I listened to someone with a MKIII and they were happily taking pics while I was watching a red light blink and skaters skating out of my end of the ice.

SnapLocally

Off hand I recall that last shot was taken at iso 2000 shutter probably around 1/500 at f/2.8...

The 7D has a huge amount of wiggle room before I even scratched the surface of buffering. *But* I am also not a RAW shooter. According to the manual, one can take 15 shots at 8fps or 24 shots at 10mp size before it becomes an issue.