Canon 40D review is up at DPreview!

Moogle Pepper

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07102402canoneos40dreview.asp

40D or 5d or 5d mk II.....

ziggy53

Moogle Pepper wrote:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07102402canoneos40dreview.asp

40D or 5d or 5d mk II.....

Thanks, I was hoping for this.

I am greatly encouraged that the "Highlight Tone Priority" is working and that dynamic range has been extended, possibly as a result of the Digic III processor and 14 bit processing. ISO 3200 looks very usable and ISO 100-1600 are extremely similar in tonality. No need to fear any ISO setting with this camera.

Also welcome are ISO indications in the viewfinder and LCD display (no more excuses for "forgetting" the ISO and being in the wrong sensitivity for the scene. I know this has been mentioned previously, but I thought it deserved another reminder.)

I suspect this camera will be a "must buy" for me and my style of shooting.

kdog

Ziggy, what did you make about the comment that JPG has wider dynamic range on this camera than does RAW? I thought that was curious.

Cheers,
-joel

ziggy53

kdog wrote:

Ziggy, what did you make about the comment that JPG has wider dynamic range on this camera than does RAW? I thought that was curious.

Cheers,
-joel

(Page 20, "Photographic Tests", for those of you following along.)

Note that that test was using ACR "default" settings. Testing with ACR settings of: "Exp. -1.0 EV, Shadows 0, Bright. 70, Contrast -50, Curve Linear" produced considerably better results.

ACR may have to be tweaked.

They did not test with Canon's DPP, which might (probably) yield different results.

ziggy53

ziggy53 wrote:

(Page 20, "Photographic Tests", for those of you following along.)

Note that that test was using ACR "default" settings. Testing with ACR settings of: "Exp. -1.0 EV, Shadows 0, Bright. 70, Contrast -50, Curve Linear" produced considerably better results.

ACR may have to be tweaked.

They did not test with Canon's DPP, which might (probably) yield different results.

They did achieve almost 11 stops of dynamic range, which is rather nice.

sirsloop

glad ive got one in my case

Ric Grupe

sirsloop wrote:

glad ive got one in my case

What would we have done if Phil didn't like the 40D!?

sirsloop

IDK how he could dislike it??

Terrence

I know. It's soooo purty.

kdog

ziggy53 wrote:

(Page 20, "Photographic Tests", for those of you following along.)

Note that that test was using ACR "default" settings. Testing with ACR settings of: "Exp. -1.0 EV, Shadows 0, Bright. 70, Contrast -50, Curve Linear" produced considerably better results.

ACR may have to be tweaked.

They did not test with Canon's DPP, which might (probably) yield different results.

Thanks, Ziggy! I was counting on you to straighten me out.

I read that part of the review too quickly and misunderstood the point. It's kind of a silly point at that it seems. Who cares what the ACR default setting got?

What matters is that by manually setting the ACR you can get up to 11 stops of dynamic range. barb