Nikon D850

And · 1 Oct 2017 at 15:33

Interesting as according to DXO Mark, the camera with the greatest DR of the three [Canon ones] you mention is the 5DSR. It also scores higher in colour depth.

Jase said:
A friend had a Canon 5DSR and well honestly it was terrible, unless it was pinned to a tripod it was hard to get good sharp images, it was fussy with lenses and the DR was very poor. He just couldn't live with it and traded it for a 1DX (he also had a 5DIII).

Raymond Lin · 1 Oct 2017 at 15:33

Jase said:
Not yet, I'm away next week and will hopefully pick one up then.

It wasn't mentioned in my post regarding Gimbals however I added another to the list and that is the Moza Air Gimbal.

Brandon Li on Youtube (his videos are brilliant) recently did a review on Gimbals... a link to one of them below:

I seen that but I also saw this last week, it is a new Gimbal. It's not the V2 but a different and new model. They really ought to change their numbering….so confusing!

Jase · 1 Oct 2017 at 15:54

Raymond Lin said:
It's not the V2 but a different and new model. They really ought to change their numbering….so confusing!

You're right I assumed that was V2... thanks I'll take look at that later

Jase · 1 Oct 2017 at 16:37

And said:
Interesting as according to DXO Mark, the camera with the greatest DR of the three [Canon ones] you mention is the 5DSR. It also scores higher in colour depth.

That's the thing with DXO it doesn't take into consideration real world use. He purchased the 5DSR new and I guess he kept it for about 6 months, during that time he updated a couple of lenses to the very latest version on Canons recommendation as they said the old lenses were the issue (and by old I mean just updated). He just couldn't live with it and and traded it in for a 1DX. He has since traded that in for the 1DX II and still using his 5DIII.

D.P. · 1 Oct 2017 at 19:52

DR and color depth wont change in real world use vs the DXO lab. One does have to look at the more detailed analyis to see how DR changes with ISO (with a perfectly behaving sensor DR will half each time the ISo is increased 1 stop, which is not surprising considering the way an ISO_less sensor works is just bey under-exposing and amplifying everything in firmware).

The sharpness does relate to real world handling use and lens quality. This is where mirror slap and badly tunend mechanical shutters can be problematic. The D800 was about average for this, but things improved a lot wit D810 and D850. Some high res camera bodies have had issues, I think one of the SOny A7R models had a terrible shutter that robbed sharpness, and I woudln't be surprised if the Canon 5DSR just didn't have a well dampened mirror.