Yuck - that camera has the worst JPG Engine of all time, you sharpen the JPGs and you get dots all over the place, it's also soft at the +1 setting .. RAW is definately needed with the D30 and it totally Rocks in Capture ONE (try it) - luckily the RAWs are only 3Mb each!..
Do not even dreamLooks like your time and effort will help to calm many of these
people that are panicking. Hopefully they can rest now.
lens complaints, noise levels, high ISO issues, slow writing speed,
etc, etc...
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Not sure where the less than stellar preformance comes from - I find it excellent on my copy. For example, using my 300f4 with a 2x convertor, focusing is much faster and more accurate than my D60 with just the 300 ... oh, and here's a surprise - in my quest to find the limits of this camera, I stacked both my 2x and 1.4x convertors on the the 300 f4 - guess what - AF still works - a bit slower, but still very useable, and capable of tracking a 3/4 angle aircraft landing approach in AI Servo mode.
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Whew!. I was hoping that they didn't have the dreaded D30 Lurgy (the 1D Mk1 suffers this dot problem to a degree also when you sharpen Setting 0 images) ..
The image in the link is excellent.2.9 MB. In-camera sharpening level 2, 28-70 mm F2.8 L.
--Having just started to evaluate the Mark II I'm surprised to read
questions over this camera's sharpness.. There are a few important
points to remember:
1. The image processing for the 1D series apperas to be different
(to a higher standard) than other EOS digitals, tonal transitions
are smoother, sharpening artifacts virtually non-existant.
2. An eight megapixel sensor is going to pick out any sharpness /
resolution issues with the lens and focusing. A good lens,
accurately focused and with the correct DOF is needed for 1:1 pixel
sharpness.
3. This is the most important point - The default sharpening on
the EOS-1D Mark II is a very conservative level 0 (zero), this is
the same as the EOS-1D and 1Ds. It's a much lower sharpening level
than most other digital SLR's and provides you with noise free and
sharpening artifact free images. HOWEVER if you prefer your images
sharper out of the camera just increase sharpening to around level
2.
I went out on my first shoot with the camera the other day and
before even starting created a parameter set with sharpening level
'2', I'm pretty pleased with the results.
The images below are 100% crops from some 1D Mark II JPEG images.
Lens used was the EF 28-70 mm F2.8 L.
PS. Please don't ask me when the review will be posted.
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Phil Askey
Editor / Owner, dpreview.com
Phil Askey
Editor / Owner, dpreview.com
she will notice if I whited out a zero from the price tag?
that's why I dumped mine after getting the 1D, the 10D's AF sensors are too big and I ended up exposure locking nearly all outdoor shots due to it exposing for the shadow areas - acceptable in a noisy P&S Digicam which would be noisy if you brought up the levels but not the low noise 10D..
I was referring to variance between copies and QC. Just about every Canon DSLR/lens combo is capable of stellar AF and excellent images provided QC during manufacture was up to standard. When you see complaints about MKII images still looking soft, after post-processing (sharpened to the onset of visible artifacts), from competent individuals after comparing them with images from their lesser cameras, using the same lens, then only one thing comes to my mind.
