Friday, July 27, 2012

Preliminary testing Canon 5D MKIII

So many years ago I wondered why some cameras can be that expensive and heavy. Years went by with entry level DSLR after a no. of compact cameras, I gotta have my first full frame camera Canon 5D MKIII. I find the answer to what I wondered.
On my seaplane flight, I looked at the propeller running so fast. I wanna freeze it. So I had the maximum shutter speed 1/8000 second at F5.6 and got this image (photo 1). I felt a bit horrified with this image - as it looks like an engine problem at 10,000 feet high.
Then in the villa at night, I set it to the auto. Though I set the minimum shutter speed at 1/15 second, the auto setting made it 1/30 (at 24mm), F4 and then ISO10,000. This is a bit different from my other cameras like 550D or X100 or most other cameras that normally it would first go to the minimum shutter speed setting first and then ISO. That means the ISO is in a very good control. As I enlarge the photo, the noise is amazingly low (3-4 times lower than 550D). So putting the ISO in priority can minimize the handshake issue when taking night photo. More to test and more to discover....

3 comments:

Mickey Mouse said...

i just know 5D MKIII made me looks sharp and handsome!

in the sea said...

5D MKIII just takes how the person looks and what the thing is. :)

Stella said...

I agree that SEA's camera does make Mickey and all the food and pictures look very good.
It is worth the price.