QUOTE(Newbieeeeee @ Oct 24 2011, 06:00 PM)
Eh, wait wait wait. If they're using the same sensor, why is nikon's noise control better compared to Sony's?
really? i dont dig DPreview comparison, because they do it under BRIGHT condition. ask them bring to DARK condition, and u will see how much IQ is LOST due to the NR design!
even canon 450D retain more details at iso1600 then D90 (ambient light) at iso800 with FLASH
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take a look at this nikon D90 photo, the skin tone is smooth, and no color seperation, and yea, no noise, damn smooth!(too smooth, i like) because the NR smoothen it for u! i rather smoothen it myself via photoshop, why built in smoothen not good? look at the hair~ like waterpainting... no details aka
Terrible IQ, if this were a hair show (which it is,...) the hair lost all details~ now, i rather have a detailed hair (see sony) then trying to recover or sharpen a blur hair.
next, look at the (her right) cheek/jaw line to the neck beside the black hair, due to 'softening/smoothing' nikon require to do sharpening to the photo (impossible u wan see blur 'line' like the hair at the mouth, noise, eye.... they Artificially Sharpen it... w00t, and the sharpening cause 'zigzag'(oversharpen effect that u can see in photoshop) feeling that felt like high compression photo. btw, the 12mp D90 jpeg is larger then A550 14mp jpeg.

my old 450D, which i kinda miss it a lot.
i was surprise how nikon at iso800, lost so much detail on the skin, and the hair too... canon, well is such old body, skintone is weak, but the hair details is so much obvious better IQ then nikon. the oversharpening effect on lips with nikon just spoil the lip.
i own these 3, and i dont miss D90 at all, not at all.
nikon NR is set to Auto, Sony is default auto, canon is default auto.
opps, i am showing REAL LIFE USAGE comparison, not studio setup. if studio setup, it will blow u even more, nikon with its artificial unknown color, canon with its pale color, and dragging saturation from canon raw just not right, the color tone will become not balance at all.
dont call me a sony fanboi, because i own these camera and tested it intensively, and i do feel, sony might not be the best iso monster out there, but it is the best color retention out there.
and thanks to sony sensor, nikon able to keep such good color retention too. but somehow, because they wan more, to claim better then sony, they push the dynamic color too far until wierd color came off their photo, i need to dig the sample from my D7k archive...
for nikon user who wanted to bomb me, no, i did not pick the worst pic from D90 to compare, because, All my D90 photo are like that.
This post has been edited by ieR: Oct 24 2011, 06:57 PM