DIGIC8 Metering (and a rant about the evolution of DIGIC software and post processing on the M)

RedFox88 wrote:

Digic is the name of canon’s CPU. Digic 8 is faster than 7, that's all.

It's more than that...

Just like a computer, the CPU makes it faster, but, the operating system it runs, gets updated too. Canon's been updating their logic behind AWB and Metering with both each revision of DIGIC, and, even within the same revision you see minor tweaks with newer released cameras, like the M100, even though it's the same CPU as the M5, it's running a newer OS... Think about that for a minute.

Part of those software updates I gather are dependent upon having a CPU fast enough to exploit. Metering is a good example. They can use far more sophisticated logic for metering on the faster DIGIC8, because it can digest so much more data and thus evaluate the scene with more granularity. I can tell because things like shadow manipulation just doesn't help on my R... It's not needed. Same for White Balance, my R, like the M50, is so much smarter than the cameras before it. And, my R, is smarter than my former M50, even though it's the same CPU, it was released after the M50 thus has a newer updated software (OS) running on that DIGIC8 which has more sophisticated, more up-to-date algorithms.

Trust me, after post processing hundreds of shots now, you can tell when your best effort on an R (newer DIGIC8) photos makes less than 2% difference from the original shot, and your best effort on an M50 (older DIGIC8) makes maybe a 15% difference, but, on an M5 (DIGIC7), it's closer to 25-30% improvement...

Make sense?