Canon 5D MK IV usable images at ISO 102,400

<p>Fro Knows Photo website has posted some Canon 5D MK IV test images, full res DNG files that you can download and work with in Lightroom or PS to play with. The shot at ISO 102,400 in low light cleans up pretty good in Lightroom with noise reduction and tweaking, this is ISO 102,400, it is not perfect, there is some grain of course but Canon has come a long way. The shot is usable for some uses if that was all you got to work with.</p>

<p><a href="http://froknowsphoto.com/canon-eos-5d-mark-iv-raw-files/">LINK</a> if anyone wants to play with the test shots.</p>

<p>Indeed, that's the direction the camera manuf should be going + DR and less emphasis on the pixels. I guess we just have to be patient, eh ?<br>

Les</p>

 

<p>Gee gosh o' willy. Those of us who used to use the fast (200-500 ASA) slide films of the 60s would have settled for a lot less than this! ;)<br>

In fact, I thought 3200 on the Canon 5D was jes' fine. </p>

<p>How does ASA 12 stack up?<br>

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<p>ASA 12 :-) Nice, been a while since I shot with film. Good one, Wayne. Can you still get it?<br>

My 6D will go down to ISO 50 but not 12. Guess I will have to break out my ND filters.</p>

<p>In the 1960s I wouldn't even dream of shooting a big white-tail buck jumping a fence before dawn, at least, not without flash and all the problems that introduces. Now I routinely take that shot, but I still look forward to improved IQ as DR continues to increase.</p>

<p>I downloaded the link above--took eleven minutes.</p>

<p>I was able to open the raw file without any updates on CS 5.1, presumably because it is a DNG file. Here is what I got by cropping out the top part and resizing to 700x668 and fiddling with levels--after minimal noise reduction, also in CS 5.1.</p>

<p>I would say that it is definitely usable--not perfect by any means, but usable. Someone with better processing skills than I could surely do even better--but I suspect that chroma noise is going to be the bigger challenge. It is noisy but not blotchy, and so it is workable, in my opinion.</p>

<p>This is not my shot. If the mods have to take it down, I have to say that anybody with CS5 or better ought to be able to at least replicate what I did.</p>

<p>--Lannie</p><div></div>

<p>It just occurred to me that ISO 102,400 is ten stops beyond ISO 100! Holy cow!</p>

<p>--Lannie</p>

<p>Sure is a nice jump and nice to know it is there if needed, may not need ISO that high that often but ISO 3200 will look pretty clean with no real work. A big step for Canon and I will no longer have to envy the Nikon guys. I am pretty happy with what this camera offers.</p>

<p>Now Adobe has to get on the ball and get Lightroom able to open these CR2 files, of course this will be for LR 6, so here goes another upgrade. Or if using and older version of LR like me, I will need the Adobe DNG converter. So much for work flow until that happens. I do wish DPP would adopt a better layout geared for work flow and put all the tools on the sides of the work window that you can slide up and down to search tool, similar to LR. The current clicking between boxes is clunky and DPP lacks some features I like in LR. Oh well that is a discussion for another thread.</p>

<p>sorry as of today Adobe Camera Raw to DNG does not support the 5D Mark IV, yet.</p>

<p>Adobe just released support for the Canon 5D MK IV in Lightroom 6 and Adobe RAW to DNG today. DNG Converter 9.7.<br>

<a href="https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Windows">LINK</a> for DNG converter (WIN)<br>

<a href="https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?platform=Macintosh&product=106">LINK</a> for DNG converter (MAC)</p>

<p>I bought a Canon 5D MK IV. I really like it. I got a chance to try it out this weekend. I did some low light shots at ISO 102,400. Really nice considering ISO 102,400.<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18289152-md.jpg" alt="" width="679" height="453" /></p>

<p>Photo at ISO 16000<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18289808-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /></p>

<p>Night Street image at ISO 20,000. This looks pretty much as seen with naked eye.<br>

LINK <a href="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18289809-lg.jpg">2000 pixel wide view</a><br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18289809-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /></p>

 

When I shot nature work I always used positive film, medium format Hasselblad cameras. ASA 50 and rated it at 32! It

wasn't that long ago, 2005 I think was when I last shot film! Amazing! I still think low for nature and I've been shooting

nature with the 5DSR, Looks sweet! Sure beats spending $35,000 on a 50 megapixel hassy back!

<p>Bob, yes you could buy 10 x Canon 5D MK IVs for that price. lol. Guess the cameras for the common folk are getting better. I imagine so will the Hasselblads.</p>