On you the internet, no matter how well you do, you will find harsh negative comments. I read a lot of reviews and I found this one was the easiest to notice the differences, especially the sample images.

You are buying the camera to shoot a photograph, not a box of pixels. You are not evaluating the camera’s quality based on the quality of each pixels, but on the overall quality of the photograph.

And as to the guy who said noise would smudge all the detail on the Canon, get a brain, moran. The Canon camera has more detail before noise kicks in due to higher resolution. As long as the deleterious effects of noise and noise removal destroys less detail than the additional resolution adds, the net effect is nil.

As far as the test does go, while subjectively I think the 7D performs better than the D300s, according to other opinions the 7D and D300s have about identical high ISO performances once resizing is factored in, so this one is up for grabs. Do you have a big stack of Nikon lenses somewhere? What about Canon lenses? Do you expect that the 7D2 will hit the market to meet D7000 high ISO performance, and that this update will arrive before a D400?

I do not have any knowledge about performance of Sony cameras so I will not comment on it. I do not find it a problem that it is not in the same price range as the two other cameras. It is mentioned so everyone can take it in account when they compare the pictures. I do however have to say that it is not optimal that the focus is not 100% correct. It makes it difficult to draw any conclusions and in my opinion it is therefore difficult to see the relevance of including the camera in this test.

I was a bit surprised about the first of your test though. The sharpness for the Canon was pretty much what I have experienced myself but I feel that your results for the Nikon was quiet a bit below what I have experienced. The second test is identical to my experiences for both cameras. I generally prefer the result from Nikon as long as ISO is below 800. From ISO 800 and above Canon have a clear advantage. This is not surprising. For many years tests have proven that Canon handle high ISO better than Nikon. What there maybe is surprising is that Canon is able to do this even though it has a much higher resolution. That is impressive. Nikon have wisely realized this and chosen to keep the resolution on a level where ISO handling still is quite good.

Once again – thank you for an interesting test.

Photogs are starting to get really spoiled and the young ones don’t even know it.

LOL!

Sure, if you want to compare x size to x size, however, it’s not a real world test.

Instead, a 100% crop is fair because it is exactly a 1:1 crop of what the sensor was meant to display. I think it’s entirely funny how people get online and complain about resizing being unfair because it’s not a real test, yet they forget that doing ANY adjustment to the output before a test would decrease the integrity of the image.

You can’t have it both ways. This test is the most natural way, at least cropping and image size – of displaying what the camera and sensor is capable of given the same PP treatment. So the Canon is bigger, so? Who cares what the Canon can do when resized to the Nikon. Don’t we care what the Canon/Nikon can do when printed or displayed in large sizes with high ISO?

It’s utterly pointless and ridiculous what people cry about – because it just doesn’t make any logical sense. Resizing ANY image to compare such small detail like ISO noise is about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.