Digital SLR Best Skin Tone Quality Contest Shootout
Do you take a lot of portrait photography? How about weddings or parties? Then you know how important well balanced skin tones are to your photos. Sure, you can take the image into Photoshop and adjust it but why go to the hassle because your equipment let you down?
The folks at shootsmarter have taken the bull by the horns and taken a crop of professional digital slr’s, run them through a test shoot, printed the results and given them a score.
The professional DSLR cameras tested were:
With 2 or 3 bodies each (except for the Canon 1D’s where only 1 each were available but they were rather new and in excellent condition) they adjusted for exposure compensation before the shoot.
“The files were all different sizes of course, but they were all printed to 12x18 size at the default 300 PPI resolution of the Frontier, and cropped by the Frontier software to eliminate the letter ID above the models’ head in each frame. We also did some minor cropping to the full frame sensor camera files to make…
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Canon EOS 5D Digital SLR
Canon’s EOS 5D dslr comes with a 12.8 megapixels in a 35mm full frame sensor. With a maximum 4,368 x 2,912 pixel resolution you can print large size images or crop with more flexibility without having to reduce the print size too much.
Previous to the 5D Canon only had one other camera with a full frame sensor, the EOS-1Ds Mark II. Being a full on professional D-SLR it was expensive and quite large and heavy.
With the EOS 5D digicam, Canon finally has a product that fits nicely between the high end and the prosumer level EOS 350D/EOS 400D digital Rebel Xts. For lens compatibility the EOS 5D supports Canon’s EF series lenses (not EF-S).
Reviews have given the camera high praise for its high resolution (of course) and low noise images. Couple this with a quality lens and you should get outstanding images.
Being a full frame camera, a 50mm lens will give you exactly that, not the longer 35mm equivalent 75mm with a smaller sensor. Optics matter on a camera with a full frame so this may mean upgrading to better camera lenses if you do decide to shell out the money for this DSLR.
With camera…
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Canon Eos 400D / Digital Rebel XTi News, Reviews, Comparisons, Prices and Specs
Canon’s new ten megapixel EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi is the latest addition to their budget digital SLR line of products.
Key features/specs include a ten megapixel, ISO1600 capable CMOS sensor.
Also new is a dust reduction system, nine area auto focus and shooting information on the 2.5” LCD. The small monochrome LCD above the 2.5” LCD in the EOS 300D/350D is now gone.
Cnet gives the Canon EOS 400D Digital Rebel XTi mixed results, largely faulting it for jumping to a higher resolution on the same physical sensor size as the EOS 350D but lowering sensitivity sensor to compensate. Inexplicably spot metering is not featured on this camera.
Cnet Asia has just released a review of Canon EOS 400D-Digital Rebel XTi and gave it a lower rating (7.8) than usual for a Canon camera. It seems Canon sacrificed a few features and lowered specifications to compete with the likes of the 10 megapixel Nikon D80.
Canon upped the resolution but kept the sensor size the same thereby reducing the ISO rating by a full stop to ISO 1600 instead of 3200 for the EOS 350D. While Canon has enlarged the LCD to 2.5” they have removed the monochrome…
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