Canon EOS RP RAW editing flexibility?

dpfan32 wrote:

Yes I can assure you the EOS RP files are more problematic in terms of dynamic range than lets say the EOS R files.

I own both cameras and owned several Sony A7 cameras as well.

Is it always a problem?

No.

Because I shoot landscapes with big dynamic range with exposure bracketing anyway. So there is no difference left even to cameras with even more dynamic range like the Sony A7 and A7r and the Mark II versions of them which I had. But the color science on the Sony cameras was to my eyes awful.

Do you shoot backlit portraits?

There will be a problem lighting up the person in post processing the you shoot to preserve the background sky. But you should use a flash anyway in this situation.

I will post an old link to a photo from the dpreview Canon EOS 6D Mark II review, which is said to have the same or similar 26 megapixels sensor to show you what I mean.

Look at the first picture of the two nice people with the cute dog:

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-6d-mark-ii-review/3

So there is a problem with noise on the 3 main subjects.

I could post a link to a German forum where a Canon representative Gregor Zajac took this dpreview picture and edited it with Lightroom and it looked much better than what dpreview did ^^ Sorry for that... ^^

But the links to the Canon Irista pictures, where he showed the screenshots from the settings and the final picture edited are gone for good. Canon took down Irista at some point.

This is the link anyway: https://www.dforum.net/entry.php?10-EOS-6D-Mark-II

Maybe you can run a google translator from German to English.

But I can tell you it's a thing of how you edit the files:

The 6D Mark II and the EOS RP can handle a huge amount of noise reduction (30) without sacrificing a lot details like other cameras would do. The picture from the link above the Canon guy edited in that way that I had no noise and looked good.

In the Noise reduction section of Lightroom he set the luiminace Noise 30.

In the sharpening section he used an Amount of 66, Radius 0,6 pixels, Detail 35 and Masking setting I can not remember. But this is always different.

So with a little bit of care while shooting and in post processing you can achieve very good results even with a Canon EOS RP and saving a lot of money!

Did I mention that the RP has wonderful oldschool Canon colours from the DSLR era ? Yes it has better colours than my EOS R and the R6 I had for a short amount of time and ended up returning it because I could not edit the colours to my taste in post processing, but this I maybe my poor skillset ;).

I want to thank you guys for your opinions as it'll help guide my purchasing decision. To be clear, I mostly shoot travel and landscape photos. I do occasionally shoot the so called social photos that I’ll upload to Facebook. I typically do shoot an auto exposure bracket. I suppose even if I want to wait the RAW file, I'll likely have a good starting point to edit the image. I get that the RAW files are noisier than it's competitors, but if I get the exposure mostly right and using base ISO, can you or anyone explain to me how noise is an issue and viewable?