I said that I wouldn’t do any more pixel peeping, however a friend of mine who’s considering buying the Canon 5D MkII asked me to do a quick test for him, so I thought I’d share the results here.
His concern is that the 5D’s 21 mega pixels would generally be far more than he ever needs, leading to inflated file sizes and slower post processing. His interest is therefore in the SRaw1 format, in which the camera generates 10 mega pixel Raw files via some form of interpolation. He asked me to take an outdoor photo once in each format so that he could examine the Raw files himself. I’m happy to oblige.
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