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1d Mk4 Opinions...the sequel
Les Schofer, Assistant
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Lynchburg | VA | USA | Posted: 2:46 PM on 01.13.10 |
->> Shot college Women's basketball last night. Looking at images on LCD they seem sharper that Mk3 LCD. I believe Autofocus performed better than Mk3. ISO 6400 images with no luminance or color noise filtering thru cRAW looked better than MK 3 at 3200. At 12800 it needs some luminance and color filtering, about like the mk 3 did. I did a 14 shot of a girl pedaling the monster trike toward me during a timeout and it faltered on two frames.
I had the tracking sensitivity set to "low" and the camera properly ignored a player who had moved into my focusing point's area. I don't recall the mk 3 doing that well. |
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Corbey Dorsey, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cozad | NE | USA | Posted: 4:44 PM on 01.14.10 |
| ->> Photographed outdoors today with the Mark IV. The focus tracking feels like the Canon of old...very responsive, accurate....The tracking seems to be of a more 'precision' type is how I would describe it. Files at the higher iso ranges are exceptional. Very nice on a 400 with a 1.4 attached. First lower light shooting tonight, hopefully my sentiments stay the same. |
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Andrew Nelles, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | usa | Posted: 4:55 PM on 01.14.10 |
->> I'm on day 3 of assignments with mine. High ISO is great, about 1-stop better than my 1D3, which I was very happy with.
AF has been great after I took the time to do the micro adjustments for my lenses. |
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Andrew Nelles, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | usa | Posted: 4:58 PM on 01.14.10 |
| ->> Forgot to add, the auto WB seems to be better in incandescent lighting, so far at least. Not perfect, but a big step up. On the topic of color, I swear my screen has a slight magenta cast. |
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Wesley Hitt, Photographer
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Fayetteville | AR | USA | Posted: 5:16 PM on 01.14.10 |
->> Andrew, I would be curious on how you did your micro adjustments for your
lenses. |
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Andrew Nelles, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | usa | Posted: 6:33 PM on 01.14.10 |
->> I use a pretty un-scientific method, but it seems to work.
I used a white box that had black text. Shot files with -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 on the micro adjustment, then picked the sharpest one. I went back and then shot +-5 in increments of 1 starting off from the best result in the previous shoot, then picked the sharpest setting. About half of my lenses were best at 0, the rest between +5 and +10. |
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Ric Tapia, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 8:22 PM on 01.14.10 |
->> Wesley,
http://www.lensalign.com/products.html
The best way to micro adjust your lenses. If anyone in the LA area wants to borrow mine shoot me an email.
Ric |
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Steve Violette, Photographer
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Gulf Breeze | FL | USA | Posted: 9:15 AM on 01.15.10 |
| ->> + another for LensAlign. Did this with my Mark III's and it made a noticeable difference (improvement) |
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Andrew Nelles, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | usa | Posted: 3:28 AM on 01.16.10 |
->> I am curious what other 1D4 users have their noise reduction settings at. I had mine set to standard, but I think I'll change it to low.
I just finished shooting a concert at 3200-6400 and the noise reduction just obliterated detail on the musicians face. Left it looking too smooth and plasticy. I just did some tests at home and setting it to Low seems to produce better results. |
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Monty Rand, Photographer
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Bangor | ME | USA | Posted: 6:10 AM on 01.16.10 |
| ->> I have mine turned off based on others suggestions. I haven't done a comparison yet to see what looks best. |
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Richard Heathcote, Photographer
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London | . | UK | Posted: 1:13 PM on 01.16.10 |
->> I've been shooting with a mk4 for 3 months now (picking up production bodies next week) Over those few months I've found noise reduction set to low works best if your shooting jpeg only. Standard was a bit heavy handed IMO when shooting 2000 iso and higher.
Also make sure you've got the Auto Light Optimizer disabled, it's handy in a few situations, but if you have it on, skin tones can look very odd if your not careful. |
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Andrew Nelles, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | usa | Posted: 4:13 PM on 01.16.10 |
->> I should note the "standard" setting did seem to work fine at high ISO in many situations. I've used it several times on assignment without any significant detail loss. High school basketball at 6400 for example turned out fine.
However, the standard setting just overreacted to the red gels used at the music venue I was shooting at. It seemed to kill all fine detail in the shots with red gelled light, when blue gels were used, the shots retained fine detail well. |
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