I have read many reviews on the quality and noise levels of these two cameras and decided to conduct my own noise test to see how they both compared. I will not draw any conclusions but let you decide and make your own minds up. The test was carried out with noise reduction in both cameras switched off. I set up a scene and tripod and set both cameras to manual. I then did a custom white balance of the grey card in the scene. I then took a light measurement with a light meter and took a series of jpeg images at ISO 200, 400, 800, 1600 and 3200. All the images were taken with the same Canon 50mm 1.8 lens. All the exposures were identical for each ISO setting. All the images were the same as to make no difference up to 400 ISO so I will go from 800. The crops at at 100%. To see a larger image just click on it and feel free to download to your own computer.
40D 800 ISO
50D 800 ISO
40D 1600 ISO
50D 1600 ISO
40D 3200 ISO
50D 3200 ISO
As previously stated at the start noise reduction has been switched off on both cameras. Except for cropping the images to get the 100% crops nothing else has been done to these images, they are straight out of the cameras. With this switch on their would obviously be much less noise.
The whole scene looked at follows:
My next blog will show the effect of noise reduction using Noise Ninja and Nik DFine to check their effectiveness on these images.
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40D 800 ISO
50D 800 ISO
40D 1600 ISO
50D 1600 ISO
40D 3200 ISO
50D 3200 ISO
As previously stated at the start noise reduction has been switched off on both cameras. Except for cropping the images to get the 100% crops nothing else has been done to these images, they are straight out of the cameras. With this switch on their would obviously be much less noise.
The whole scene looked at follows:
My next blog will show the effect of noise reduction using Noise Ninja and Nik DFine to check their effectiveness on these images.
Don't forget if you need a wedding photographer please check:
wedding photography NorwichSource URL: http://lifestyleartsblogs.blogspot.com/2010/05/canon-40d-v-50d-noise-test.html
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