Second hand, Canon 6D or 5D MK2 ?
- Thread starter China Man
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I am looking into getting a wider lens. One of the reason I wanted a new body is that I find low light photo have a lot of noise where I need to do a lot of post editing. Also I would like to have a better or more accurate focusing, I only use the center focusing point btw.
budget around 500-800
budget around 500-800
First of all thank you for all your input, I feel like I am learning from the best and I already think I may be saving a lot of money by not doing unnecessary upgrade.
Here is 2 typical photo I get when I am messing around at home with my flash, not the best low light comparision but that is the latest shot I have access to without digging into my NAS.
F1.8 1/100 iso200 the picture of my daughter have flash hitting the front and back so it is well lit, at 200iso there is some noise when zoom in with camera raw at 100% but can't really tell zoomed out, it does not bother me. I still adjust Noise reduction with lumiance by 10 to get rid of the grain.
F2.8 1/100 iso 200 the picture of both of them together have only bounced flash from celling and because it was a action shot their faces was not lit. By adding fill light to show up their face the noise become unusable, I turn up luminance to let say 50 and it lost the details and the colour just become "dirty" skin tone.
May be I am chasing the imaginary noise in my photos, I find most of the time I am adjusting evey photo I take out of my camera, with flash I have more control but outdoor is really a hit and miss. I thought if my camera can handle higher iso or even auto iso I will spend less time adjusting or post processing.
Landscape I just hate carrying tripod but when I am serious I will carry one, again if upgrade means I can use a higher iso and faster shutter speed for me it will be a good investment.
shooting at f1.8 with only center point means that I focus on the eye then recompose to shot, with kids moving all the time = hit and miss. but the time I get a lock on the eye and move to frame the shot kids would have moved that 1/2" depth out of focus......I guess when I move onto shooting adult it will be a lot easier
Here is 2 typical photo I get when I am messing around at home with my flash, not the best low light comparision but that is the latest shot I have access to without digging into my NAS.
F1.8 1/100 iso200 the picture of my daughter have flash hitting the front and back so it is well lit, at 200iso there is some noise when zoom in with camera raw at 100% but can't really tell zoomed out, it does not bother me. I still adjust Noise reduction with lumiance by 10 to get rid of the grain.
F2.8 1/100 iso 200 the picture of both of them together have only bounced flash from celling and because it was a action shot their faces was not lit. By adding fill light to show up their face the noise become unusable, I turn up luminance to let say 50 and it lost the details and the colour just become "dirty" skin tone.
May be I am chasing the imaginary noise in my photos, I find most of the time I am adjusting evey photo I take out of my camera, with flash I have more control but outdoor is really a hit and miss. I thought if my camera can handle higher iso or even auto iso I will spend less time adjusting or post processing.
Landscape I just hate carrying tripod but when I am serious I will carry one, again if upgrade means I can use a higher iso and faster shutter speed for me it will be a good investment.
shooting at f1.8 with only center point means that I focus on the eye then recompose to shot, with kids moving all the time = hit and miss. but the time I get a lock on the eye and move to frame the shot kids would have moved that 1/2" depth out of focus......I guess when I move onto shooting adult it will be a lot easier