DxOMark and advanced D-SLRs
The high-end sensor arms race: who is winning? Michael Reichmann (of the popular site Luminous Landscape) recently concluded that the latest and greatest Nikon and Canon cameras are now...
View ArticlePixel-peeping: Canon 10D ↔ Canon 5D2
Test setup I took the pictures below with a five-year old 6 Mpixel Canon 10D and a brand new 21 Mpixel Canon 5D Mark II. Both images were made using a 24-105 f/4L standard lens. Both images are shown...
View ArticleUsing DX lenses on an FX camera
What happens if you use a lens designed for a 15×22 mm sensor on a full-frame camera?
View ArticleCanon 5D2 – black dot plague and its cures
The Canon 5D Mark 2 had a high profile defect which caused small black dots to show up (under some circumstances) to the right of every bright spot. This was fixed by a firmware upgrade.
View ArticleDxOMark Sensor for benchmarking cameras
DxOMark provides raw benchmark information for camera bodies (DxOMark Sensor). Although DxO Labs is a commercial organization, it provides its benchmark results for free because DxO needs to measure...
View ArticleMagic Lantern for the Canon 5D Mark II
What is Magic Lantern? If you own a Canon 600D, a Canon 60D, Canon 5D Mark II, or certain of their predecessors, you might be interested to hear that you can extend the capabilities of your camera for...
View ArticleDxOMark Camera Sensor article (v2.0 and v2.0.1)
I have been working on an update to my original DxOMark article. That update has just been published on Luminous Landscape, a well-known photography site operated by the Canadian landscape photographer...
View ArticleState of the DxOMark (camera nerdiness)
I updated my overview chart with available high-end cameras. See http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Camera-Sensor-Database for detailed benchmark results for specific cameras. As usual, there is a lot of...
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