From the course: Advanced Photography: Medium-Format Digital Cameras
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Understanding noise and medium format
From the course: Advanced Photography: Medium-Format Digital Cameras
Understanding noise and medium format
- Throughout this course, I've been saying that one of the advantages of medium format is that with the larger photo sites on that larger sensor, you should have a better signal-to-noise ratio down at the pixel level, and that should mean less noise in your final image. I'm saying should over and over and over. And that's because, as I mentioned before, traditionally, medium format cameras have very often been really lousy with noise. And that again is because of the difference between CCD and CMOS sensors. The cameras we're looking at are all CMOS sensors, which have great noise response. So we come now finally to that question of, "Do they really have less noise?" Can you expect an improvement in noise over what you are used to shooting? I wanted to find out, so we sat up a little still life and shot the Canon 5D Mark IV against both the Fuji GFX 50S and the Hasselblad X1D. And I got a bunch of results here. I got this nice big stack of prints that I printed out here. Before we get…
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