7D low light performance

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I wasn't going to post these originally and had only made them to reply to a Tweet asking to see high ISO performance on the 7D but following the DXOMark thread I thought I'd let you guys make your own minds up.

Shot in very dark storage hangars at RAF Shawbury on Friday. Two 100% RAW crops without any noise reduction (white balance being the only change)....

ISO 2000 (500KB file!)....

http://www.fast-air.co.uk/images/Misc/FastAirCoUk-Hawk-ISO-2000-7D.jpg

ISO 3200 (600KB file!)....

http://www.fast-air.co.uk/images/Misc/FastAirCoUk-Hawk-ISO-3200-7D.jpg

I'll dig out a 40D from a previous visit to those hangars to compare.
 
The ISO 2000 one is very impressive but I thought that performance at 3200 would be a bit better. Heard ISO 3200 on the 5D mkII is amazing.
 
Trick said:
Did you get to go in the hangars on the other side of the airfield where all the apaches are hiding?
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No Apaches there anymore. My last visit in late 2007 they were preparing them for transport to Wattisham.

MichaelHo said:
The ISO 2000 one is very impressive but I thought that performance at 3200 would be a bit better. Heard ISO 3200 on the 5D mkII is amazing.
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ISO 3200 is pretty much unusable. The full frame sensor on the 5Dmk2 should give better performance.
 
At 100% with no NR they're bound to look noisy, but the amount of detail retained at 3200 iso i would say is plenty usuable, having seen this thread on TP makes me somewhat envious of the 1600-3200 iso capability of the 7D.
 
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