EOS350D to EOS 100D

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Hi chaps

I currently have an EOS 350D which I bought new, Santa bought it the EF 75mm to 300mm a couple of years ago and I still love the camera and use it regularly.

Santa has offered to upgrade said camera to an EOS 100D, is it a worthwhile upgrade.

I have tried an EOS 100D in the local photography shop and found it intuitive to use, the manual shutter speed and aperture settings in particular.

My concerns are noise, particularly low light noise, my partner has a Sony HX50 which gives cracking photos but seems to struggle a little with noise in Auto when it uses a high ISO rating. I notice the Canon has a similarly high ISO rating, any experiences with noise?

Cheers

Warren :)
 
Well you have twice the pixels on the same size sensor and a better image processor to try and remedy some of this noise. But I don't think the upgrade is worth it for that alone. 100D is a pretty small body too, I don't know how it will feel when using a 75-300 lens, properly a bit front heavy and awkward.

Maybe if Santa could get the Elves to put in some overtime, you could look at a 60D or 700D which would probably be a better upgrade.
 
Yeah, DxO tests (I know, far from the be-all and end-all) show very similar performance across most metrics. So all you're really getting is twice as many pixels and the use of extended ISO range, with all the noise that entails. I guess the files might clean up better but I'd put the money towards saving for something that's a bit more of an upgrade.

http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Canon-EOS-100D-versus-Canon-EOS-350D___871_183

What you should really do is sell all your Canon kit and buy a D5200 :p
 
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Cheers for the replies, I assumed the higher pixel count on the same sized sensor would increase noise, I read an interesting article on it somewhere.

Body size isn't an issue, I like its compact size for carting about with stock lens and I tend to use my Manfrotto with the telephoto. A recent monopod has proved useful too.

I may take my Netbook, 350D, favourite lens etc into the local shop and see if they will let me compare the results.

I am patiently waiting for Canon to release a £1000 full frame......:)

As for Nikon, hmmm, I have never once regretted buying the 350D, it really was a very good camera for its price so shall stick with them.
 
Bear in mind that Canon's been using the same crop sensor since the 550d, so the shift in performance is much smaller than you'd expect because it's been about 4 years since they updated that sensor and compared to the Nikon sensors it's definitely long in the tooth.

It'll be an all around improvement on the 350d, definitely, because the 350d was very much built cutting any corner Canon could to get the price down. The low light will be much better than the 350d and the hx50, and you can't pay attention to the maximum ISO setting when looking at low light performance, really - where you want to look is performance metrics such as dxomark (whereby the 100D is slap bang on par with pretty much every Canon crop camera, and about 30% behind the Nikon sensors)
 
Cheers for the reasoned reply.

That is an interesting site (dxomark). it has given me a slightly retentive insight into the differences, tonal range is much better on the newer sensor, strangely at the white end of the spectrum.

So worth a punt or wait for newer sensor releases?
 
In all honesty, a decent prime lens or a constant f/2.8 zoom lens to help you keep shutter speed up/ISO down would be more useful and give a more noticeable improvement in the images you take. Something like a non VC tamron 17-50 f/2.8 or a nifty fifty for example.
 
WoZZeR said:
Cheers for the reasoned reply.

That is an interesting site (dxomark). it has given me a slightly retentive insight into the differences, tonal range is much better on the newer sensor, strangely at the white end of the spectrum.

So worth a punt or wait for newer sensor releases?
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Worth a punt if you're sure Canon's where you want to stay. People have been saying 'wait for a new sensor' for years with Canon, basically since the 60d and 600d, particularly if the diminutive size of the 100D is an advantage to you (otherwise it might be worth looking at a second hand body with the same sensor but a higher end body like the 60d)
 
Canon's new big thing in sensors has come... 70D it is!
But, biggest thing I've noticed with a newer Canon is the massive increase in general operational speed, they just feel much snappier. Nikon use Sony sensors, so as Sony become huge in the sensor world Nikon benefit. Also video is a huge bonus if you will need it
 
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3dcandy said:
Canon's new big thing in sensors has come... 70D it is!
But, biggest thing I've noticed with a newer Canon is the massive increase in general operational speed, they just feel much snappier. Nikon use Sony sensors, so as Sony become huge in the sensor world Nikon benefit. Also video is a huge bonus if you will need it
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For the most part at the moment Nikon is using Nikon sensors actually (D4, DF, D7100, D5300 and perhaps the D3200 are Nikon sensors, not even dabbed by Sony)
 
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