I remember when the 5D Mark II came out and Hollywood started exalting it as equally good low light imagery for $2699 compared to Red's $100K One. Filmmakers started using the 5D2 like crazy, including George Lucas (the cockpit scenes in "Red Tails". This made the CEO of Red wig out and release press conferences blasting the 5D2 like it was the enemy of earth, lol. So it's no surprise that they put great effort into a sensor/camera that would do all it could to regain their reputation for THE large-sensor cinema camera.
I noticed something else in the article: the ed scored 10th in low light noise rating. Naturally I opened up that link and low and behold, the top 9 were all Nikon DSLRS except for the Canon 1Dx thrown in there and a Sony DSLR. Nikon is still the undisputed champion of low light imagery, a very important attribute for landscape shooters. I'm very happy with my 5D Mark III but it makes me realize that it's just like owning a Harley... totally love to use them but they sure are noisy.
The most amazing thing to me is that it's the only non-full frame camera on the low-light list. It's more like an APS-H!!
... the top 9 were all Nikon DSLRS except for the Canon 1Dx thrown in there and a Sony DSLR.
Technically, that's a Sony MILC (or my preference, an EVIL) camera. And most, if not all, of the Nikon's are using Sony sensors... so I'd think you'll be seeing more Sony's creeping into that list in the future. Which still leaves Canon behind until they get a new more modern line of sensors into production. And, FWIW, DxOMark claims that a 25% difference in low-light score equates to about 1/3 eV. The max difference on that entire top 10 is a bit less than 25%.
That's right, Sony makes Nikon's sensors, forgot about that. In reality we ARE comparing high-end sports cars here, where 15th on the list still runs a 4.9 quarter mile and throws .9 G's on the skidpad, lol.
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I noticed something else in the article: the ed scored 10th in low light noise rating. Naturally I opened up that link and low and behold, the top 9 were all Nikon DSLRS except for the Canon 1Dx thrown in there and a Sony DSLR. Nikon is still the undisputed champion of low light imagery, a very important attribute for landscape shooters. I'm very happy with my 5D Mark III but it makes me realize that it's just like owning a Harley... totally love to use them but they sure are noisy.
Technically, that's a Sony MILC (or my preference, an EVIL) camera. And most, if not all, of the Nikon's are using Sony sensors... so I'd think you'll be seeing more Sony's creeping into that list in the future. Which still leaves Canon behind until they get a new more modern line of sensors into production. And, FWIW, DxOMark claims that a 25% difference in low-light score equates to about 1/3 eV. The max difference on that entire top 10 is a bit less than 25%.