Jared Polin, froknowsphoto.com
And in the photo community lately there's been a lot of talk about whether or not the Canon 6D Mark II
has terrible dynamic range when compared to a crop sensor Canon 80D
Now a lot of the websites out there fail to tell you is that where this is the case, is at
100 ISO. At the base ISO.
Yes,
there may be a slight dynamic range difference between the full frame 6D Mark II and a Canon 80D at
100 ISO, whereas the 80D may be say 10 stops of dynamic range
The 6D, which is full-frame, has less
at say around 9 stops
but is it that big of a deal? is the question. What these sites have failed to really hammer home other than the
sensationalized titling is
That that's at 100 ISO. As soon as you get to 320 and beyond, the 6D Mark II is on par with the other
full-frame cameras that Canon is making, which means for the most part, it's on par with them
and it does a good job, a better job, at higher ISO
and personally I rather have a camera that is better at high ISOs
with retaining that dynamic range than something that I worry about at just 100 ISO, so what I want to do
here is show you sample files that we took, RAW files that you can download
yourself to play with in Lightroom to see how far you can push the dynamic range to see if you can really see a difference
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So let's look at these images. First things first.
I set up the... we set up for photo news fix tile because it's pretty good lighting
But we wanted to show you what it would look like at 100 ISO. So here's a hundred ISO, and then let's move up
We went to thirty-two hundred
Sixty-four hundred
Twelve thousand eight hundred
Twenty five thousand six hundred
And we topped it out at the forty thousand, which is the native high
resolution that this camera goes to. Now, when you look on the screen right here, you're going to see noise
That's the nature of the beast, that's what happens when you zoom in one-to-one. If you were to print this out
yes, you'd see some of the...
the grain in the background, but again pretty good lighting situation here
I just want you guys to go through, look at these images, see the difference...
with how you could process and edit them and see what you can bring back
and how far you can push the shadows and still have it work out and look good. I mean this one's at the
6400 and it's fine. Now, obviously, I just moved some buttons, but you can see it for yourself
You can play with these files. Go download them and mess with them to see if it really matters that
the dynamic range may be less at 100 ISO compared to the 80D
But you're much better off at higher ISOs compared to that 80D
So let's keep moving on to the next thing right here. Kitty, get off my chair, buddy. You're going to scratch up the chair
Thank you. So I went outside and we found split lighting. We've got shadow to the left and we've got
bright sun to the right. I exposed for the sky and
wanted the... the...
the Bobblehead in the shadow, so we could do this, we could do this. Watch, we can go like this
We can go like this, less of this, a little bit of this and look, you go download the file
and you see what you can do... do for yourself
You tell me, or you tell yourself, whether.... I mean, literally,
I just did three clicks of some buttons here
But you, look, do the files look clean in the shadow areas?
Does this file look much better than where it started? Because that's where the shadow area is and the
highlights, and then boom, we... and then we bring it right back. So look at that, right?
You can see that the shadow area was brought up, and we're at that base 100 ISO.
Is this good or is this not good?
And I'm not comparing it to anything else because if this is the camera that you have,
then this is the camera that you have. Tell me this doesn't work, and it doesn't work, if that doesn't work for you.
But that's just bringing it back a little bit. You can keep tweaking this,
right, you can keep tweaking it, you can do whatever you guys need to do to play with it because you have the free rein
to go play with these raw files. Same thing, I'll just literally copy this setting from here to here.
Let's sync it up and let's go like this, and then I'm going to, I'm going to bring it back
just a little. I'm going to cut back here, because I don't want to go that far, but that is very...
You know, my eyes didn't see it like-- well, actually the eyes are pretty close to seeing it just like this, so...
What is that? There's eight files, there are 8 files for you guys to download and play with as RAW DNGs.
That is the determining factor whether something is good or not good for you. Real world images.
Now, these are just mostly snapshots,
but I was trying to make a point as we work on making
the real world review of the Canon 6D where we take it into a real world situation and put it through its paces.
I just wanted to acknowledge that we have the camera, we have raw files for you to play with and a lot of
websites out there have really hammered home that the ISO, the 100 ISO
doesn't have good dynamic range when compared to, say, the crop sensor 80D, but in a real world situation
I don't really think you're going to miss very much there in terms of that.
It's a trade-off, should it be better at a lower ISO, and at the same ISO than a crop sensor camera? Probably.
But at higher ISOs you are better with this full-frame camera
Let me know what you guys think, you can download those files for yourself, try them out.
Let me know what you think, and again, don't forget...
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Jared Polin froknowsphoto.com
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